barely

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | 340 words | Copyright

bare·ly / ˈbe(ə)rlē/ • adv. 1. only just; almost not: she nodded, barely able to speak a barely perceptible pause. ∎ only a short time before: they had barely sat down when forty policemen swarmed in. 2. in a simple and sparse way: their barely furnished house.

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