Usually means: Barely, almost not, hardly noticeable.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word scarcely:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. scarcely: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scarcely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scarcely: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scarcely: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scarcely: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scarcely, scarcely: Wordnik
  7. scarcely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scarcely: Wiktionary
  9. scarcely: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scarcely: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scarcely: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scarcely: Dictionary.com
  13. scarcely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Scarcely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. scarcely: Rhymezone
  16. scarcely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. scarcely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. scarcely: Free Dictionary
  19. scarcely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. scarcely: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. scarcely: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scarcely: Legal dictionary

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  1. scarcely: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (modal) Probably not.
adverb:  (modal) Certainly not, hardly at all.
adverb:  (degree) Hardly: only just; by a small margin.

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