Bearly vs Barely - What's the difference?
bearly | barely |
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears; ursine.
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* 1955 , Agnes L. McCarthy, James Kenner Agnew, Prose and poetry for appreciation :
* 2010 , Clydal Vania, On the Flight to Nowhere :
(degree) By a small margin.
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* 1925 , Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera , silent movie
(degree) Almost not at all.
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(archaic) merely.
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Barely is a anagram of bearly.
As an adjective bearly
is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears; ursine.As an adverb barely is
by a small margin.bearly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- He was going to be a bearly' bear. With a ' bearly mate.
- Past two years old Keg was now, a big and very bearly bear, and with the first tocsin of fall in the air he'd wandered off toward Sugar-loaf, answering the call of his kind.
- All acting like nothing even happened at all. (Then, a half hour later) Boom! BOOOM!! (There's a poundin down at the door) As Jeanie goes ta answer it, as im in the kitchen getting cereal. As another Big bearly Man Comes barging in.
Anagrams
* * *barely
English
Adverb
(-)- It becomes, therefore, no inconsiderable part of science barely to know the different operations of mind,
- ‘It is barely possible you may hear of a ghost, a Phantom of the Opera!’
- The plane is so far away now I can barely see it.
- Yes, it is barely visible.
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- Now that fire do's not alwayes barely separate the Elementary parts, but sometimes at least alter also the Ingredients of Bodies