"scarcely" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [English]

IPA: /ˈskɛəsli/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈskɛɹsli/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-scarcely.ogg [US] Forms: more scarcely [comparative], most scarcely [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English scarcely, scarsly, scarsely, scarsliche, scarseliche, equivalent to scarce + -ly. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|scarcely}} Middle English scarcely, {{m|enm|scarsly}} scarsly, {{m|enm|scarsely}} scarsely, {{m|enm|scarsliche}} scarsliche, {{m|enm|scarseliche}} scarseliche, {{suffix|en|scarce|ly}} scarce + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} scarcely (comparative more scarcely, superlative most scarcely)
  1. (modal) Probably not. Tags: modal Translations (probably not): едва ли (edva li) (Bulgarian), sotva (Czech), tuskin (Finnish), aligha (Hungarian), nemigen (Hungarian), bajosan (Hungarian), ní móide (Irish), ar éigean (Irish), dificilmente (Portuguese), едва́ (jedvá) (Russian), едва́ ли (jedvá li) (Russian), вря́д ли (vrjád li) (Russian), е́ле (jéle) (Russian), е́ле-е́ле (jéle-jéle) (Russian), с трудо́м (s trudóm) (Russian), air èiginn (Scottish Gaelic)
    Sense id: en-scarcely-en-adv-ZeM8HzPF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English positive polarity items, English terms suffixed with -ly Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 48 5 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 58 36 6 Disambiguation of English positive polarity items: 47 47 5 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ly: 58 32 10 Disambiguation of 'probably not': 74 24 2
  2. (modal) Certainly not. Tags: modal Translations (certainly not): съвсем не (sǎvsem ne) (Bulgarian), sotva (Czech), tuskin (Finnish), ní móide (Irish), ar éigean (Irish), haud (Latin), air èiginn (Scottish Gaelic)
    Sense id: en-scarcely-en-adv-Uq1hWY8Z Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English positive polarity items Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 48 5 Disambiguation of English positive polarity items: 47 47 5 Disambiguation of 'certainly not': 21 78 1
  3. (degree) Hardly: only just; by a small margin. Synonyms (degree: by a small margin): barely
    Sense id: en-scarcely-en-adv-79IS2Chp Disambiguation of 'degree: by a small margin': 6 6 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hardly Synonyms (barely, almost not or not quite): barely, just, hardly, only just Related terms: rarely Translations (almost not, by a small margin): μόλις (mólis) (Ancient Greek), едва (edva) (Bulgarian), sotva (Czech), amper (Dutch), nauwelijks (Dutch), apenaŭ (Esperanto), tuskin (Finnish), hädin tuskin (Finnish), à peine (French), guère (French), 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅 (halisaiw) (Gothic), alig (Hungarian), ní móide (Irish), vix (Latin), haud (Latin), mal (Portuguese), air èiginn (Scottish Gaelic), apenas (Spanish), difícilmente (Spanish), knappt (Swedish), a poenne (Walloon), a schipe (Walloon)
Disambiguation of 'barely, almost not or not quite': 39 38 23 Disambiguation of 'almost not, by a small margin': 39 39 22

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          "ref": "1963, Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes",
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          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Probably not."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Probably",
          "probably"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(modal) Probably not."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "modal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "One could scarcely expect the man to know how to fly a helicopter.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842, William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1869, R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone",
          "text": "But, of course, this weather had put a stop to every kind of movement; for even if men could have borne the cold, they could scarcely be brought to face the perils of the snow-drifts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds",
          "text": "The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914, Saki, “Dusk”, in Beasts and Super-Beasts",
          "text": "His clothes could scarcely be called shabby, at least they passed muster in the half-light, but one’s imagination could not have pictured the wearer embarking on the purchase of a half-crown box of chocolates or laying out ninepence on a carnation buttonhole.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Certainly not."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Certainly",
          "certainly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(modal) Certainly not."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "modal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875 December 7, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant's Seventh State of the Union Address",
          "text": "In 1776 manufactories scarcely existed even in name in all this vast territory.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet",
          "text": "Scarcely had she got fairly into it, however, before the beasts closed in behind her, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes",
          "text": "But we shall take scarcely more than two years to reach it, while we should have needed almost as much time to arrive in the region of Proxima Centauris.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Baltasar Gracián, translated by Joseph Jacobs, The Art of Worldly Wisdom",
          "text": "Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best—for that we must have recourse to art.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Hardly: only just; by a small margin."
      ],
      "qualifier": "degree",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(degree) Hardly: only just; by a small margin."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskɛəsli/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskɛɹsli/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-scarcely.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/En-us-scarcely.ogg/En-us-scarcely.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/En-us-scarcely.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "degree: by a small margin",
      "word": "barely"
    },
    {
      "word": "hardly"
    },
    {
      "sense": "barely, almost not or not quite",
      "word": "barely"
    },
    {
      "sense": "barely, almost not or not quite",
      "word": "just"
    },
    {
      "sense": "barely, almost not or not quite",
      "word": "hardly"
    },
    {
      "sense": "barely, almost not or not quite",
      "word": "only just"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "edva li",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "едва ли"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "sotva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "tuskin"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "aligha"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "nemigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "bajosan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "ní móide"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "ar éigean"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "dificilmente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "jedvá",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "едва́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "jedvá li",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "едва́ ли"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vrjád li",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "вря́д ли"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "jéle",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "е́ле"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "jéle-jéle",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "е́ле-е́ле"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "s trudóm",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "с трудо́м"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "probably not",
      "word": "air èiginn"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎvsem ne",
      "sense": "certainly not",
      "word": "съвсем не"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "certainly not",
      "word": "sotva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "certainly not",
      "word": "tuskin"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "certainly not",
      "word": "ní móide"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "certainly not",
      "word": "ar éigean"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "certainly not",
      "word": "haud"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "certainly not",
      "word": "air èiginn"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "edva",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "едва"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "sotva"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "amper"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "nauwelijks"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "apenaŭ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "tuskin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "hädin tuskin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "à peine"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "guère"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "halisaiw",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "mólis",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "μόλις"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "alig"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "ní móide"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "vix"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "haud"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "mal"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "air èiginn"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "apenas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "difícilmente"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "knappt"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "a poenne"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
      "word": "a schipe"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scarcely"
}

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