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- The meaning of HARDLY EVER is almost never : very seldom.
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Hardly ever, rarely, scarcely and seldom are frequency adverbs. We can use them to refer to things that almost never happen, or do not happen very often. They have a negative meaning. We use them without not. Rarely, scarcely and seldom are more common in writing than in speaking: He hardly ever smiles. [a trout is a type of fish]
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The meaning of HARDLY EVER is almost never : very seldom. How to use hardly ever in a sentence.
collocation. Add to word list. almost never: We hardly ever go to concerts. He hardly ever washes the dishes and he rarely, if ever, does any cleaning. See. hardly. ever. Fewer examples. She was a very contented baby who hardly ever cried. The gallery hardly ever hangs works by the same artist adjacently.
adverb. hard· ly ˈhärd-lē. Synonyms of hardly. 1. a. used to emphasize a minimal amount or degree. I hardly knew her. [=I didn't know her well at all.] It's almost new—there's hardly a scratch [=there are almost no scratches] on it. There's been hardly any [=almost no] news. There's hardly any [=almost none] left.
adverb B1+. You use hardly in expressions such as hardly ever, hardly any, and hardly anyone to mean almost never, almost none, or almost no-one. We ate chips every night, but hardly ever had fish. [+ ever] Most of the others were so young they had hardly any experience. [+ any] Hardly anyone slept that night.
Hardly is an adverb. It has a totally different meaning from hard . You use hardly to modify a statement when you want to emphasize that only a small amount or detail makes it true, and it is best to consider the opposite as true.
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Hardly is an adverb meaning ‘almost not’: I hardly ever go to concerts. I can hardly wait for my birthday. It cannot be used instead of hard: I’ve been working hardly today. She has thought very hardly about her future plans. It was raining hardly outside.
