hard·ly  /ˈhɑrdli/

adv

1. only a very short time before; "we hardly knew them"; "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

synset: barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce

2. almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was scarce sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"; "I can hardly hear what she is saying"; "she barely seemed to notice him"; "we were so far back in the theater, we could barely read the subtitles"

synset: hardly, scarcely, barely, scarce

3. slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"; "he was so dizzy he could hardly stand up straight"

synset: hard, hardly

Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

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