English-Thai Dictionary

barely

ADV เกือบ ไม่พอ  น้อย มาก  hardly greatly kueab-mai-phor

 

barely

ADV เรียบง่าย  ไม่ ตกแต่ง  riab-ngai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BARELY

adv. Nakedly; poorly; indigently; without decoration; merely; only; without any thing more; as a price barely in title.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BARELY

BARELY Bare "ly, adv.

 

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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

barely

bare ly |ˈbe (ə )rlē ˈbɛrli | ▶adverb 1 only just; almost not: she nodded, barely able to speak | [ as submodifier ] : a barely perceptible pause. • only a short time before: they had barely sat down when forty policemen swarmed in. 2 in a simple and sparse way: their barely furnished house. 3 archaic openly; explicitly.

 

Oxford Dictionary

barely

bare ¦ly |ˈbɛːli | ▶adverb 1 only just; almost not: she nodded, barely able to speak | [ as submodifier ] : a barely perceptible pause. • only a very short time before: they had barely sat down before forty policemen swarmed in. 2 in a simple and sparse way: their barely furnished house. 3 archaic openly; explicitly.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

barely

barely adverb former hurricane Patricia was barely at tropical storm force: hardly, scarcely, just, only just, narrowly, by a very small margin, by the narrowest of margins, by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth, by a nose; almost not; informal by a whisker. ANTONYMS easily.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

barely

barely adverb we barely got home in time: hardly, scarcely, just, only just, narrowly, by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth, by a very small margin, by the narrowest of margins, by a nose; almost not; informal by a whisker. ANTONYMS easily.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

barely

bare ly /béə r li /〖もとは 「赤裸々に 」〗副詞 比較なし 1 かろうじて , やっと (only just ); ほとんど …ない (!否定の意味がさらに強い場合はhardly, scarcelyを用いる; →hardly コーパスの窓 ) ▸ She barely escaped .彼女はやっとのことで逃げた ▸ be barely able to [can barely ] walk 歩くのがやっとだ ▸ be barely visible どうにか見える ▸ I barely know him .彼のことはかろうじて知っている程度だ .2 〖数量の前で 〗ちょうど, せいぜい ▸ Barely 30 percent of the voters supported the government .投票者のせいぜい30 \%しか政府を支持しなかった 3 乏しく ▸ a barely furnished living room ろくに家具もない居間 4 まもなく , …するとすぐに (hardly, scarcely )▸ I had barely got seated when the phone rang .着席したとたんに電話が鳴った .