Vocabulary
Scarcely
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
only just; almost not.
Urdu meaning
شاذو نادر ہی، دقت سے، کبھی نہیں
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- With just one doctor for over 1,200 patients, it can scarcely afford to shed skilled personnel, especially in public hospitals that serve the poor.
- Pakistan`s own educational woes, while not so extreme, are scarcely less worrying.
- What they fail to acknowledge, however, is that our present masters reproduce structures of power that scarcely differ from their colonial predecessors.
- While the Jewish population of the US is scarcely more than that of Muslims, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is by far one of the most influental lobbying groups in the country.
- Similar to CMS, there are 174,096 government schools across Pakistan but, barring a few, these are scarcely funded.
Synonyms
hardly, barely, only just, almost not
Curator example
“her voice is so low I can scarcely hear what she is saying”
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