hardly

hardly (http://definr.com/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]