Barely Meaning. Mary had barely. The weather is so bad that he can hardly see the road.
If you have five dollars and lunch costs five dollars that is an example that you can barely pay for lunch. Feb 12 2009 Barely People say barely as an expression to mean. Scarcely hardly barely enough money for lunch.
A barely furnished room.
Imagine theres a competition that will take some time to calculate the score. By the smallest amount. Answer means simply no. Hardly scarcely just only just narrowly by the skin of ones teeth by a hairs breadth by a very small margin by the narrowest of margins by a nose.
