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Synonyms for hardly
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
only a very short time before
We hardly knew them.
The true synonym
barely
Same sentence, swapped: We barely knew them.
Close but different
These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for hardly as it is used in the sentence above.
- badly
- incredibly
- rarely
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Closest first: other words at Foothills, then their alphabetical neighbours.
foreignadjectivealiennot contained in or deriving from the essential nature of somethingFoothillsQualities2 sensesformnoun, verbkinda category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or qualityFoothillsThinking and knowing2 sensesHas a reason lineformeradjectiveoldbelonging to some prior timeFoothillsframeverbborderenclose in or as if in a frameFoothillsContact and joining2 sensesHas a reason linefraudnouncheatthe act of swindling by some fraudulent schemeFoothillsActionsfreezeverbblockprohibit the conversion or use of (assets)FoothillsChangeHas a reason linefrontnounmovementa group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goalsFoothillsGroups and collections2 sensesfulladjectivegoodhaving the normally expected amountFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line
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