Just barely

The answer

ATAD

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ATAD answer page.

Used 33 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• BYAHAIR (10 uses in xd)
• BYANOSE (4 uses in xd)
• BYAHAIRSBREADTH (3 uses in xd)
• ATTHELASTMINUTE (1 uses in xd)
• BYAWHISKER (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ATAD

Every other clue in this collection answered by ATAD, most used first.

• Slightly - used 300 times, most recently in 2026
• Somewhat - used 161 times, most recently in 2026
• Not much - used 153 times, most recently in 2026
• Just slightly - used 134 times, most recently in 2026
• Not very much - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Ever so slightly - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Hardly any - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Just ___ (not much) - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
• Barely - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Hardly at all - used 23 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Just - ONLY, used 190 times
• Just slightly - ABIT, used 86 times
• Just sitting around - IDLE, used 85 times
• "___ Only Just Begun" - WEVE, used 61 times
• "Just ___!" - ASEC, used 56 times
• Just one of those things? - THAT, used 54 times

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