Yarely vs Barely - What's the difference?
yarely | barely |
In a yare manner.
*1606 , , by Shakespeare
(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 yarely and barely
is that yarely is in a yare manner while barely is by a small margin.yarely
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- The silken tackle / Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands / That yarely frame the office.
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