Dictionary Entry
barely
barely is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Without covering; nakedly. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adverb
Without covering; nakedly.
- 2adverb
Without concealment or disguise.
- 3adverb
Merely; only.
- 4adverb
But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.
- 5adverb
only a very short time before- W.B.Yeats
"they could barely hear the speaker"
"we hardly knew them"
- 6adverb
in a sparse or scanty way
"a barely furnished room"
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