PWN-3.0 relation(s)

eq_near_synonym

barely _1(b), hardly _1(b), just _5(b), scarce _1(b), scarcely _1(b) only a very short time before; "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