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Adverb: hardly  haa(r)dlee
  1. Only a very short time before
    "we hardly knew them"
    - barely, just, scarcely, scarce
     
  2. Almost not
    "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"
    - scarcely

Nearest

hard-hitting
hardihood
hardily
hardiness
Harding
Harding grass
hardinggrass
hardline
hard-line
hardliner
hardly
hardly a
hardness
hard-nosed
hard-of-hearing
hard-on
hardpan
hard-pressed
hardscrabble
hard-shell
hard-shell clam