Synonyms

just barely scarcely scarce

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

Used in print

The statistics hardly indicated that the Pirates needed extra batting practice , but Murtaugh also turned his men loose at Busch_Stadium yesterday .

Edison could hardly have guessed , however , that Sophocles would one day appear in stereo .

Every man who dabbles_in the market to make a_little easy_money on_the_side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb .

But if his purpose was to inspire terror , his action could hardly have miscarried more obviously .

Besides , he can hardly avoid musing on the instability of death which , what with exhumations and rehabilitations , seems to match that of life .

Synonyms

scarcely

Examples

"he hardly ever goes fishing" "he was hardly more than sixteen years old" "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"

Used in print

The drama itself - and this seems to be lavishly true of Biblical drama - often has hardly any relationship with authenticity at_all .