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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Barely \Bare"ly\, adverb
1. Without covering; nakedly.
2. Without concealment or disguise.
3. Merely; only.
R. For now his son is duke. W. Barely in title, not in revenue. --Shak.
4. But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare (of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
barely
adverb
1: 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 [syn: {hardly}, {just}, {scarcely}, {scarce}]
2: in a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room" [syn: {scantily}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "barely": a bit, a little, alone, baldly, by a hair, by an ace, closely, ever so little, exclusively, exiguously, faintly, feebly, hardly, imperfectly, inappreciably, inconsequentially, insignificantly, just, just a bit, lightly, little, meagerly, merely, minimally, minutely, nakedly, narrowly, nearly, negligibly, not hardly, not quite, only, only just, plainly, purely, scantily, scarce, scarcely, simply, simply and solely, singly, slightly, solely, tant soit peu, triflingly, weakly
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