scarcelyPronunciation: /ˈskɛːsli/Translate scarcely | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of scarcely adverb only just; almost not:her voice is so low I can scarcely hear what she is saying only a very short time before:she had scarcely dismounted before the door swung open used to suggest that something is unlikely to be or certainly not the case:they could scarcely all be wrongscarcely in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of scarcely in the US English dictionary
