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Hardly
see synonyms of hardlyAdverb
1. barely, hardly, just, scarce, scarcely
only a very short time before
Example Sentences:'they could barely hear the speaker''we hardly knew them''just missed being hit''had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open''would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave'
2. hardly, scarcely
almost not
Example Sentences:'he hardly ever goes fishing''he was hardly more than sixteen years old''they scarcely ever used the emergency generator'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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