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hardly


 
  Overview  of  adv  hardly 
 
  The  adv  hardly  has  2  senses  (first  2  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  (37)  barely,  hardly,  just  scarcely,  scarce  --  (by  a  small  margin;  "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"-  W.B.Yeats) 
  2.  (2)  hardly,  scarcely  --  (almost  not  "he  hardly  ever  goes  fishing";  "he  was  hardly  more  than  sixteen  years  old";  "they  scarcely  ever  used  the  emergency  generator") 
 
  Grep  of  adj  hardly 
  hardly  a 
 
  Overview  of  adv  hardly 
 
  The  adv  hardly  has  2  senses  (first  2  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  (37)  barely,  hardly,  just  scarcely,  scarce  --  (by  a  small  margin;  "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"-  W.B.Yeats) 
  2.  (2)  hardly,  scarcely  --  (almost  not  "he  hardly  ever  goes  fishing";  "he  was  hardly  more  than  sixteen  years  old";  "they  scarcely  ever  used  the  emergency  generator") 



hardly definition