Meaning & use
hardly
Barely or almost not at all; used to say something is scarcely true or possible.
See it in a sentence
I could hardly hear the announcement over the noise of the crowd.
She had hardly finished speaking when the phone began to ring.
A note on using this word
"Hardly" already carries a negative meaning, so avoid pairing it with "not" (say "I hardly know him," not "I don't hardly know him").
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