Dictionary 1. (adv.) Without covering; nakedly.2. (adv.) Without concealment or disguise. 3. (adv.) Merely; only. 4. (adv.) But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare (of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped. Thesaurus a bit a little alone baldly by a hair by an ace closely ever so little exclusively exiguously faintly feebly hardly imperfectly inappreciably inconsequentially insignificantly just just a bit lightly little meagerly merely minimally minutely nakedly narrowly nearly negligibly not hardly not quite only only just plainly purely scantily scarce scarcely simply simply and solely singly slightly solely tant soit peu triflingly weakly |