hardly
B1Frequent NGSL-2UK /ˈhɑːdli/US /ˈhɑːrdli/
Meaning
adverb
almost no; almost not; almost none
“There's hardly any tea left.”
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“I can hardly imagine anyone more prepared for the future than you.”
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“Hardly had my parents' car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the classics corridor.”
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“She was six, and she was at the back, drawing, and the teacher said this girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson, she did.”
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