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hardly in WordNet English dictionary
adverb- only a very short time before
"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
barely hardly just scarcely scarce barely hardly just scarcely scarce
- almost not
"he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"
hardly scarcely hardly scarcely
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