scarcely
1. [ adverb ] by a small margin
Synonyms: just hardly barely scarce
Examples:

"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

2. [ adverb ] almost not
Synonyms: hardly
Examples:

"he hardly ever goes fishing" "he was hardly more than sixteen years old" "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"

Similar spelling:   scarce
  Scearce
  screakily
  screaky
  scarcity
  screechy
  scraggly
  Scorzelli
  Screws
  screak
  scores
  scarceness
  screech
  scriech
  Schwarz
  Schwark
  Schrock
  Schrick
  Schreck
  Schrage
  Schrack
  screw_key
  scorsese
  scrooge