Difference between Scarcely and Barely

SCARCELY vs BARELY: ADVERB

By a small margin
In a sparse or scanty way
By a very little; hardly.
In a scanty manner; sparsely.
Without covering; nakedly.
Without concealment or disguise.
But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare (of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly.
Almost not at all.
Merely.

Merely; only.
Only just; no more than; with nothing over or to spare: as, she is barely sixteen.
Scantily; poorly: as, a man barely clad, or a room barely furnished.
Nakedly; openly; without disguise or concealment.
Almost not
By a little
Only a very short time before

Nigh, Simply, Merely, Virtually, Not, Almost, Little, Only, Practically, Rarely, Seldom, Scarce, Just, Barely, Hardly

Not, Badly, Little, Almost, Nearly, Seldom, Rarely, Even, Practically, Only, Scarce, Scantily, Just, Hardly, Scarcely

Nigh, Simply, Merely, Virtually, Not, Almost, Little, Only, Practically, Rarely, Seldom, Scarce, Just, Barely, Hardly

Not, Badly, Little, Almost, Nearly, Seldom, Rarely, Even, Practically, Only, Scarce, Scantily, Just, Hardly, Scarcely

Like, I could barely even move my legs.
It barely peeled any skin off my feet.
In an adhesion contract, the parties barely negotiate.
Upstage, where the light could barely reach them.
Gilbert has barely been off our television screens.
He could barely sit or walk without pain.
This diver must be just barely buoyant that is, it must just barely float.
Scandinavian climate, where half the year the sun barely sets, and the other it barely tops the horizon.
The future belongs to the young men, who are barely of age and barely realizing their freedom.
My barely salvaged heart could barely stand the risk of being dinged yet again.