Weakly vs Barely - What's the difference?
weakly | barely |
Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
* 1885', I lay in '''weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me. — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18
* 1889', I'd always been but ' weakly , / And my baby was just born; / A neighbour minded her by day, / I minded her till morn. — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Moll Magee’
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
*:"Oh, a huge crab," Jacob murmured—and begins his journey on weakly legs on the sandy bottom.
(degree) By a small margin.
* 1748 , , Oxford University Press (1973), section 8:
* 1925 , Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera , silent movie
(degree) Almost not at all.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=October 23
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City
, work=BBC Sport
(archaic) merely.
* 1661 , , page 29,
As adverbs the difference between weakly and barely
is that weakly is with little strength or force while barely is (degree) by a small margin.As an adjective weakly
is frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.weakly
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Adjective
(er)barely
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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