Barely and Fairly

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Barely

Barely adverb - By a very small margin.
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Fairly and barely are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fairly" instead an adverb "Barely".
Nearby Words: bare, bareness

Fairly

Fairly adverb - To some degree or extent.
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Barely and fairly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Barely" instead an adverb "Fairly".
Nearby Words: fair, fairness

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  • Juggling Loaded Guns His best part was when he tried to shoot a Wraith, and hit the magazine release instead...note He does, over the course of the show, go from barely being able to operate a pistol to carrying a P90 and using it fairly competently, though never quite as well the rest of the team.
    Source: Juggling Loaded Guns
  • It's the Same, Now It Sucks The title songs were fairly similar, and other songs just barely avoided being analogues for others from the previous album.
    Source: It's the Same, Now It Sucks
  • The designs of Ridley and Kraid were also rather different: Ridley was a completely stationary winged thing of some kind who was fairly easy to defeat, and Kraid was tiny, barely larger than Samus.
    Source: Early Installment Weirdness / Video Games
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