Scarcely
Scarcely adverb - By a very small margin.
Surely not and scarcely are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Surely not" instead an adverb "Scarcely".
Surely not
Scarcely and surely not are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Scarcely" with "Surely not", this terms are similar.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hardly and scarcely
- hardly and surely not
- by no means and scarcely
- by no means and surely not
- not at all and scarcely
- not at all and surely not
- not and scarcely
- not and surely not
- noways and scarcely
- noways and surely not
- noway and scarcely
- noway and surely not
- on no account and scarcely
- on no account and surely not
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