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Synonyms for scarcely

Synonyms for scarcely: barely and narrowly. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · adverb · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for scarcely

Interchangeable with scarcely in this sense

Audited under scarcely's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one scarcely carries in that sense.

barelyadverb, in the sense "only just; barely, implying a very small amount"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name scarcely as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

narrowlynarrowly is an adverb in the sense "by a very small margin"

one of these comes from scarcely's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The senseadverbTier 1, FoothillsQuantity

only just; barely, implying a very small amount

There was scarcely enough firewood to last the night.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

barely

Same sentence, swapped: There was barely enough firewood to last the night.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

certainly
eventually
surprisingly

Where scarcely turns up in the game

scarcely is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play scarcely

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scarcely reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Closest first: other quantity words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

scarcitynounshortagea state of insufficient quantity or supplyFoothillsHas a reason line bevynouncrowda large group, especially of people or animals of one kindFoothillsHas a reason line bulknounmajoritythe great mass or majority of somethingFoothillsHas a reason line sufficiencynounenoughan adequate quantityHigh Camp2 sensesHas a reason line surplusnounglutan amount left over after requirements have been metTreelineHas a reason line swellverbburgeonto increase noticeably in size or number.High CampHas a reason line movenounmotionthe act of changing location from one place to anotherFoothillsHas a reason line movedadjectivetouchedbeing excited or provoked to the expression of an emotionFoothillsHas a reason line

A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. scarcely carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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