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(adv) just, barely, scarce, scarcely
only a very short time before
they could barely hear the speaker; we hardly knew them; just missed being hit; had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open; would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave- W.B.Yeats
(adv) scarcely
almost not
he hardly ever goes fishing; he was hardly more than sixteen years old; they scarcely ever used the emergency generator