(zarf) henüz, ancak, hemen hemen, ucu ucuna, kıtı kıtına, neredeyse hiç

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Definition of (zarf) henüz, ancak, hemen hemen, ucu ucuna, kıtı kıtına, neredeyse hiç in Turkish English dictionary

scarcely

Certainly not

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.

Probably not

One could scarcely find any trout in the stream without the stocking program.

Almost not at all; by a small margin

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best—for that we must have recourse to art.

{a} hardly, rarely, scantily

Frugally; penuriously

With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just

In a scarce manner; hardly; not much or at all

barely, hardly; almost not

almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"

If you say scarcely had one thing happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second. Scarcely had they left before soldiers arrived armed with rifles

by a small margin; "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

emphasis You use scarcely to emphasize that something is only just true or only just the case. He could scarcely breathe I scarcely knew him He was scarcely more than a boy

You can use scarcely to say that something is not true or is not the case, in a humorous or critical way. It can scarcely be coincidence = hardly

Hyphenation

(zarf·) he·nüz, an·cak, he·men he·men, u·cu u·cu·na, kı·tı kı·tı·na, ne·re·dey·se hiç