scarcely
Collocations
4ADJ.
left
VERB + SCARCELY
found
SCARCELY + NOUN
dog, fact, hour, jack, man, minute, money, trout
PREP.
from, in, out, since
Definitions
adv
Probably not.
One could scarcely find any trout in the stream without the stocking program.
The staff here are frequently in the news, thanks to their successful efforts to make an attractive station where travellers would scarcely expect to find one.
Certainly not, hardly at all.
One could scarcely expect the man to know how to fly a helicopter.
He did not enter upon the subject without being aware that government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of individual intellect; but, as the views he entertains in this particular are out of the common road, it is scarcely to be wondered at that he understood the proposition more completely as he proceeded, and saw more distinctly into the nature of the remedy.
Hardly: only just; by a small margin.
Scarcely had she arrived when she was put to work.
He had scarcely finished, when the labourer arrived who had been sent for my ransom.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6One could scarcely find any trout in the stream without the stocking program.
WiktionaryThe staff here are frequently in the news, thanks to their successful efforts to make an attractive station where travellers would scarcely expect to find one.
WiktionaryOne could scarcely expect the man to know how to fly a helicopter.
WiktionaryThere are scarcely any flowers in our garden.
Tatoeba · #24155Scarcely had I reached home before the telephone rang.
Tatoeba · #24203Scarcely had the rain stopped before a rainbow appeared.
Tatoeba · #26978