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hardly
adverb
1 hardly
Only a very short time before:
— We hardly knew them.
synonyms: barely, just, scarce, scarcely.
Roget 137:
seldom,
rarely,
scarcely,
hardly;
not often,
not much,
infrequently,
unfrequently†,
unoften†;
scarcely,
scarcely ever,
hardly ever;
once in a blue moon.
once;
once in a blue moon;
once in a million years;
once for all,
once in a way;
pro hac vice [Lat.].
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Roget 32:
to a small extent
[in a small degree],
on a small scale;
a little bit,
a wee bit;
slightly
etc.
adj.;
imperceptibly;
miserably,
wretchedly;
insufficiently
etc.
640;
imperfectly;
faintly
etc.
160;
passably,
pretty well,
well enough.
[in a certain or limited degree]
partially,
in part;
in a certain degree,
to a certain degree;
to a certain extent;
comparatively;
some,
rather in some degree,
in some measure;
something,
somewhat;
simply,
only,
purely,
merely;
at least,
at the least,
at most,
at the most;
ever so little,
as little as may be,
tant soit peu [Fr.],
in ever so small a degree;
thus far,
pro tanto [It],
within bounds,
in a manner,
after a fashion,
so to speak.
almost,
nearly,
well-nigh,
short of,
not quite,
all but;
near upon,
close upon;
peu s'en faut [Fr.],
near the mark;
within an ace of,
within an inch of;
on the brink of;
scarcely,
hardly,
barely,
only just,
no more than.
about
[in an uncertain degree],
thereabouts,
somewhere about,
nearly,
say;
be the same,
be little more or less.
no ways
[in no degree],
no way,
no wise;
not at all,
not in the least,
not a bit,
not a bit of it,
not a whit,
not a jot,
not a shadow;
in no wise,
in no respect;
by no means,
by no manner of means;
on no account,
at no hand.
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Roget 704:
with difficulty,
with much ado;
barely,
hardly
etc.
adj.;
uphill;
against the stream,
against the grain;
d rebours [Fr.];
invita Minerva [Lat.];
in the teeth of;
at a pinch,
upon a pinch;
at long odds,
against long odds.
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2 hardly
Almost not:
— He hardly ever goes fishing.
— I can hardly hear what she is saying.
synonyms: barely, scarce, scarcely.
3 hardly
Slowly and with difficulty:
— He was so dizzy he could hardly stand up straight.
synonym: hard.
Moby thesaurus: a bit, a little, abnormally, arduously, at infrequent intervals, badly, barely, bitterly, burdensomely, by a hair, by an ace, by no means, closely, difficultly, energetically, ever so little, exiguously, faintly, feebly, fiercely, firmly, forcefully, forcibly, frenziedly, furiously, hardly ever, harshly, imperfectly, impliably, inappreciably, inconsequentially, incredibly, inexorably, inflexibly, infrequently, insignificantly, ironhandedly, just, just a bit, keenly, laboriously, lightly, little, madly, meagerly, might and main, mightily, minimally, minutely, narrowly, nearly, negligibly, not hardly, not often, not quite, obdurately, onerously, only, only just, painfully, powerfully, rancorously, rarely, relentlessly, rigidly, rigorously, roughly, scantily, scarce, scarcely, scarcely ever, seldom, seldom if ever, severely, slightly, solid, solidly, sorely, sparsely, stiffly, stormily, strenuously, strongly, tant soit peu, the hard way, toilsomely, triflingly, turbulently, unbendingly, uncommonly, uncompromisingly, uncustomarily, unexpectedly, unfrequently, unnaturally, unoften, unordinarily, unrelentingly, unusually, unyieldingly, very seldom, vigorously, violently, weakly, wildly, with difficulty, with much ado ... show more.
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