Hyphenation of scarcely

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word scarcely? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

scarce-ly

Definitions of scarcely:

1.	Only a very short time before They could barely hear the speaker We hardly knew them Just missed being hit Had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open Would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave- W.B.Yeats
2.	Almost not He hardly ever goes fishing He was hardly more than sixteen years old They scarcely ever used the emergency generator

Synonyms of scarcely:

adv	barely, hardly, just, scarce
adv	hardly

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.