minimally

adverb

Definition of minimallynext
as in slightly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for minimally
  1. barely
  2. minutely
  3. somewhat
  4. scarcely
  5. almost
Adverb
  • Ophelia barely registers; Gertrude gets less than two lines.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Yet in less than two years, that island has been whittled down by the sea to barely a dot — not much remains in the third photograph, dating to the end of 2024.
    Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2025
Definition of barely
Adverb
  • How state argued before a federal appeals court The number of hate groups had minutely declined since 2021, but has been slowly rising in the years since.
    Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 9 July 2024
  • The movie's pace picks up again as a new set of volunteers and paid professionals dig — using rigid standards and minutely recording their progress so that scientists around the world would accept the findings — under the Clovis levels, nine feet below the surface of the land.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of minutely
Adverb
  • Fairly decent snow accumulations happening somewhat rapidly.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • But of course, that would make this somewhat portable PC gaming solution a little less portable, and the new XG Mobile costs about as much as the Flow Z13 itself.
    Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of somewhat
Adverb
  • Coffers scarcely contained enough money to pay staff.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The book will therefore appear January 14 (following a leak that rocked the publishing world), scarcely a month after Francis’s 88th birthday, under the appropriate if slightly unimaginative title Hope.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of scarcely
Adverb
  • What to know about California's wildfires Santa Ana winds have died down across the Greater Los Angeles area, helping firefighters bring almost 40,000 acres of ongoing wildfires under control.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Walking through the deserted streets of Friedrichshain and Neukölln that summer, I was almost electrified by my grief for the world.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of almost
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