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The meaning of HARDLY EVER is almost never : very seldom. How to use hardly ever in a sentence.
Meaning of. hardly ever. in English. We hardly ever go to concerts. He hardly ever washes the dishes and he rarely, if ever, does any cleaning. She was a very contented baby who hardly ever cried. The gallery hardly ever hangs works by the same artist adjacently.
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]
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.
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Sep 16, 2011 · "Hardly" and "hardly ever" do not mean the same thing. Thus, "I hardly ever go to the gym" is fine, but "I hardly go to the gym" makes little sense to me. To me it suggests someone going to the gym, but getting there laboriously, such as by crawling on his hands and knees.
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