ALL meanings of scarcely
scarce·ly
S s - adverb scarcely barely; hardly; not quite: The light is so dim we can scarcely see. 1
- adverb scarcely definitely not: This is scarcely the time to raise such questions. 1
- adverb scarcely probably not: You could scarcely have chosen better. 1
- adverb scarcely You use scarcely to emphasize that something is only just true or only just the case. 0
- adverb scarcely You can use scarcely to say that something is not true or is not the case, in a humorous or critical way. 0
- adverb scarcely If you say scarcely had one thing happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second. 0
- adverb scarcely hardly at all; only just 0
- adverb scarcely probably not or definitely not 0
- adverb scarcely hardly; not quite; only just 0
- adverb scarcely probably not or certainly not 0