かろうじて

barely, narrowly

What does かろうじて mean?

かろうじて is a Japanese noun meaning barely, narrowly in English. It is written as かろうじて in hiragana, and karoujite in romaji. This word is part of JLPT N1 vocabulary.

Example sentence

われわれはかろうじて事故を免れた。

We narrowly missed the accident.