Desperately and Scarcely

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Desperately adverb - To a great degree.

Usage example: all of a sudden everything went desperately wrong

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Scarcely is an antonym for desperately.

Nearby Words: desperate, desperation

Scarcely adverb - By a very small margin.

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Desperately is an antonym for scarcely.

Nearby Words: scarce, scarcity, scarceness

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Scarcely and Desperately. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/desperately/scarcely

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