| Barely 1. (adv.) Without covering; nakedly. 2. (adv.) Without concealment or disguise. 3. (adv.) Merely; only. 4. (adv.) 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. Thesaurus Entries a bit, a little, alone, baldly, by a hair, by an ace, closely, ever so little, exclusively, exiguously, faintly, feebly, hardly, imperfectly, inappreciably, inconsequentially, insignificantly, just, just a bit, lightly, little, meagerly, merely, minimally, minutely, nakedly, narrowly, nearly, negligibly, not hardly, not quite, only, only just, plainly, purely, scantily, scarce, scarcely, simply, simply and solely, singly, slightly, solely, tant soit peu, triflingly, weakly |