Usually means: Barely, almost not, hardly noticeable.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word scarcely:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. scarcely: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scarcely: Merriam-Webster
  3. scarcely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scarcely: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scarcely: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scarcely: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scarcely, scarcely: Wordnik
  8. scarcely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scarcely: Wiktionary
  10. scarcely: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scarcely: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scarcely: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scarcely: Dictionary.com
  14. scarcely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scarcely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. scarcely: Rhymezone
  17. scarcely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. scarcely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. scarcely: FreeDictionary.org
  20. scarcely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. scarcely: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. scarcely: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  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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