hardly

adv 1: by a small margin; "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}, {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: {scarcely}]