narrowlyEnglishOxford English Thesaurusnarrowly adverb 1 one bullet struck the car, narrowly missing him: only just, just, barely, scarcely, hardly, by a hair's breadth, by a very small margin, by the narrowest of margins, by the skin of one's teeth, by a nose; informal by a whisker. 2 she looked at me narrowly: closely, carefully, searchingly, scrutinizingly, attentively; meticulously, scrupulously, painstakingly.narrowly Oxford Dictionary of English