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Meaning of hardly

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  hardly
      adv 1: 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 [syn: {barely},
             {hardly}, {just}, {scarcely}, {scarce}]
      2: almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly
         more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the
         emergency generator" [syn: {hardly}, {scarcely}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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