hardly

Words with a similar base: hardly

'hardly'

[barely.r.01] as in: only a very short time before; ; ; ; ; - W.B.Yeats

Examples:
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

'hardly'

[hardly.r.02] as in: almost not

Examples:
he hardly ever goes fishing
he was hardly more than sixteen years old
they scarcely ever used the emergency generator

Origins

					hardly (English)
├── hard (English)
│   └── heard (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
└── ly (English)

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