Hardly and Really

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Hardly

Hardly adverb - Certainly not.
Usage example: I would hardly think someone with her attitude could make a good manager
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Really is an antonym for hardly in barely topic.
Nearby Word: hard

Really

Really adverb - To a great degree.
Usage example: really tired after staying up all night
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Hardly is an antonym for really.
Nearby Words: realize, real, reality, realistic, realization
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  • What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? A lot of the Equalist rhetoric has a similar ring, in any case (though there's really only so many ways one can preach that type of egalitarianism, and Occupy was hardly the first such movement).
    Source: What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?
  • Manga / ZE Konoe had a goatee for a while until Waki removed it, but hardly anyone really cares.
    Source: Manga / ZE
  • Well, they were hardly gonna give me the job when everything was going really well, were they?
    Source: Promoted to Scapegoat
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