Barely
Barely adverb - By a very small margin.
Incompletely and barely are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Incompletely" instead an adverb "Barely".
Incompletely
Incompletely adverb - In some measure or degree.
Barely and incompletely are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Barely" instead an adverb "Incompletely".
Nearby Words: incomplete, incompleteness
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- somewhat and barely
- somewhat and incompletely
- rather and barely
- rather and incompletely
- fairly and barely
- fairly and incompletely
- little and barely
- little and incompletely
- moderately and barely
- moderately and incompletely
- not much and barely
- not much and incompletely
- scantily and barely
- scantily and incompletely
Both words in one sentence
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Incompletely Trained: Or rather barely trained when it came to MMA.
Source: Wrestling / Naoya Ogawa -
Incompletely Trained: Cadance, as an alicorn, has a huge amount of magical power, but she barely knows any magic, so ends up much weaker in practice than either Sunset or Twilight.
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Incompletely Trained: The guests are being sent out to evacuate the AllSpark shard even though they had only just barely begun their training.
Source: Ride / Transformers: The Ride
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