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- Dictionarybarely/ˈbɛːli/
adverb
- 1. only just; almost not: "she nodded, barely able to speak"
- 2. in a simple and sparse way: "their barely furnished house"
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9. I'm from Germany and in German both translate to the same word (kaum). I'd like to know the difference between these two words, hardly and barely. I would also sometimes translate kaum as "scarcely". Related. It's barely 1mpg worse than the other one! The 25mpg is hardly worse than the 26mpg of the other one!
A good discussion of hardly/scarcely (barely) here. You've got it right. 'Nearly' is definitely not a synonym: it means "almost but not quite" whereas barely means "by the smallest margin". @jbeldock: there are no exact synonyms. 'nearly' and 'barely' are synonyms, just with nuances in different directions.
Apr 29, 2018 · Isn't the "pre" unneeded? Wouldn't it be better to say, "First, define the rules…"? Is there way that "predefine" can be used that makes sense and is preferable to "define"? Is predefine a word? It's gets the squiggly red underline in my browser. Merriam Webster barely lists it online, only under predefined.
Dec 2, 2014 · 5. Excerpting this Grammarist post: Though more so spelled as two words, the one-word moreso gained ground despite the disapproval of usage authorities. More so strictly means that to a greater degree, and so refers to an adjective or adverb used earlier. E.g.: Gina is studious, and Eleanor is more so.
adj. scant·i·er, scant·i·est. 1. Barely sufficient or adequate. 2. Insufficient, as in extent or degree. Glamour photography is a genre of photography whereby the subjects, usually female, are portrayed in a romantic or sexually alluring way. The subjects may be fully clothed or seminude, but glamour photography stops short of deliberately ...
Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms (1942) provides a useful analysis of remember versus recall—in part by including a third term, recollect, to the discussion:
Jun 15, 2020 · 1. Since verily means truly or certainly. Can I use it where I would normally use certainly? Like: I certainly think that is appropriate. I verily think that is appropriate. If yes, are there instances where these are not interchangeable? differences. adverbs.
Mar 24, 2019 · The adverbial phrase "barely perceptibly", placed at the beginning of the sentence and separated by a comma (a move often called 'a fronted adverbial) suggests (to me) that it should modify the clause that follows and so the main verb "starts". On the other hand, common sense suggests that what is probably really modified by the adverbial is the verb crying, and that the crying itself was "barely perceptible."
Dec 1, 2014 · 0. There isn't a single word for "not well studied", but there are adverbs such as little, poorly and relatively that are more commonly used in place of “not well”. little-known / little known. relatively obscure. poorly studied. underresearched / under-researched. Cystic fibrosis: how to recognize this little-known illness.
Aug 12, 2019 · I typed define precarious into my search engine, reviewed a few answers and re-swizzled some of them into this answer. – Scottie H Commented Aug 13, 2019 at 15:56
