hardly

Barely, only just, almost not.

• They hardly ever watch television.
• It's hardly possible he could lose the election.

Certainly not; not at all.

• I hardly think they'll come in this bad weather!

With difficulty.archaic

• And what gentle flame soever doth warme the heart of young virgins, yet are they hardly drawne to leave and forgoe their mothers, to betake them to their husbands […].

Harshly, severely; in a hard manner.dated

• I was a fool when I married him; and I am so far an incurable fool on that subject, that, for the sake of what I once believed him to be, I wouldn’t have even this shadow of my idle fancy hardly dealt with.
• "Mr. Cholmondeley, the young men out here are much too hardly worked to allow them time for paying impertinent compliments."

Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.obsolete

• Let him hardly be possest with an honest curiositie to search out the nature and causes of all things […].

Not really.

• I think the Beatles are a really overrated band. ― Hardly!