barely

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An user
Price   only   barely   managed   to   secure  Davis's  permission   to   return   to  Missouri-minus  his   troops .

Prijs slaagde er nauwelijks in om de toestemming van Davis om terug te keren naar Missouri-Minus zijn troepen.

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An user
His   nickname   of   Tich   alluded   to   his   height   of   barely   five   feet
🐾
 .

Zijn bijnaam van Tich verwees op zijn hoogtepunt van amper vijf voet.

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Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (not-comparable) By a small margin..
  2. (not-comparable) Almost not at all.
  3. (not-comparable) Recently, just now.
  4. (archaic, not-comparable) Merely.
  5. (comparable, rare) Openly, clearly, plainly.

Concepten

nauwelijks
amper
kwalijk
👎
ternauwernood
karig
strak
Synoniemen

hardly
B1
scarcely
C2
just
A1

with difficulty

only just
narrowly
32k

just barely

almost
A1
slightly
B2
scarce
C2
by inches
scantily
only
A1
nearly
B1
merely
B2
weakly
C2

by a hair’s breadth

by a whisker
as soon as
penuriously
practically
B2
rarely
C1
seldom
C2
shamefacedly
slowly
B1
small
A1
snugly
somehow
B1
step by step
unassumingly
unpretentiously

with effort

by small degrees

not quite

scraping by

by a nose

about
A1

by a nose length

about to
at last
at length
austerely

by a hair

edgewise
eventually
B1
exactly
A1
finally
A2
gradually
C1
inadequately
lastly
20k
Vertalingen

kaum
appena
apenas
à peine

μόλις

knapp
apenas

mit Mühe

vix

nur schwer

mühsam
difficilmente

tout juste

Frequentie

B1
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈbɛə(ɹ).li/
Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels
barely
Verwant aan Deens
bare
Verwant aan Noors
bare
In summary

From Middle English baarly, bareliche, barely, barly, from Old English bærlīċe, equivalent to bare + -ly. Compare Danish bare (“only, just”), Norwegian bare (“only, just”).

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