- barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce - 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
- scantily, barely - in a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room"