1) Almost not 2) Barely 3) Barely, hardly 4) Hardly 5) Hardly at all 6) Just 7) Only a very short time before 8) Only just or hardly even 9) Scarce 1) Barely 2) Carefully 3) Hardly 4) Just 5) Seldom 
• (adv.) Frugally; penuriously. • (adv.) With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
scarcely 1. Barely or hardly available. 2. Almost never or by a small margin. Because scarcely has the force of a negative, its use with another negative, as in 'I couldn't scarcely believe it', is regarded as grammatically incorrect. A clause following scarcely is correctly introduced by when or before; the use of than, though common, is still ...