[wutwit] (adv) EN: narrowly ; barely ; nearly ; almost ; very near at hand ; by inches ; by an hair's breath ; within an ace of ; in time ; just about ; at the eleventh hourFR: de justesse ; sur le fil
(adv) only a very short time before; ; ; ; ; - W.B.Yeats, Syn. scarcely, scarce, just, hardly, Example: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
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)
adv. 1. Without covering; nakedly. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Without concealment or disguise. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Merely; only. [ 1913 Webster ]
R. For now his son is duke. W.Barely in title, not in revenue. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
[たどりつく, tadoritsuku] (v5k, vi) to struggle on to; to arrive somewhere after a struggle; to grope along to; to barely manage to reach; to finally arrive at; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea); (P)
[yattokosa ; yattokose ; yattoko] (adv) (1) (See やっと・1) at last; at length; (2) barely; just; by the skin of one's teeth; (int) (3) (やっとこさ, やっとこせ only) (See やっとこまかせ) yo-ho!; heave-ho!