barely vs not really

barely

adv
  • Almost not at all. 

  • By a small margin. 

not really

adv
  • To a low degree, not particularly, not especially. 

  • Not actually (a hypothetical will not, in fact, come to pass), often rhetorical. 

How often have the words barely and not really occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )