barely
♦ bare|ly /b'eərli/
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You use barely to say that something is only just true or only just the case.
Anastasia could barely remember the ride to the hospital...
It was 90 degrees and the air conditioning barely cooled the room...
His voice was barely audible...
= scarcely
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If you say that one thing had barely happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second.
The Boeing 767 had barely taxied to a halt before its doors were flung open...
1 [ADV] ADV before v, ADV group, oft ADV amount
You use barely to say that something is only just true or only just the case.
Anastasia could barely remember the ride to the hospital...
It was 90 degrees and the air conditioning barely cooled the room...
His voice was barely audible...
= scarcely
2 [ADV] ADV before v
If you say that one thing had barely happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second.
The Boeing 767 had barely taxied to a halt before its doors were flung open...