scarcely

scarcely is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adverb. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
2. adverb. Frugally; penuriously.
3. adverb. only a very short time before- W.B.Yeats

   "they could barely hear the speaker"

   "we hardly knew them"

   Synonyms: barely, hardly, just, scarce

4. adverb. almost not

   "he hardly ever goes fishing"

   "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"

   Synonyms: hardly

Synonyms

barely, hardly, just, scarce

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