DICTOMETER

HARDLY

(hardly, apenas, neppe, nesten ikke)

1. Synonyms:
   • Barely
   • Hardly
   • Just
   • Scarcely
   • Scarce
   Definitions:
   • only a very short time before
   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- W.B.Yeats
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Hardly
   • Scarcely
   Definitions:
   • almost not
   Examples:
   • He hardly ever goes fishing
   • He was hardly more than sixteen years old
   • They scarcely ever used the emergency generator