Scarcely means just before, hardly, or “almost not.” If you had scarcely made it to bed when the sun started to rise, you are probably pretty tired by now.
Adverb
by a small margin; "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
Adverb
almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"
adv.
With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
adv.
Frugally; penuriously.
Usage Examples
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
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Other Usage ExamplesMy object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
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