1. (adv.) With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.

2. (adv.) Frugally; penuriously.

a bit a little at infrequent intervals barely by a hair by an ace by no means ever so little exiguously extremely faintly fairly feebly hardly hardly ever here and there imperfectly in a measure in a way in no way in places in some measure in spots inappreciably inconsequentially infrequently insignificantly just a bit kind of lightly little meagerly minimally minutely negligibly not at all not hardly not often not quite noway nowise on no account only just piddlingly pretty quite rarely rather scantily scarce scarcely ever scrimpily seldom skimpily slightly somewhat sort of sparsely sparsim spottily stingily tant soit peu to a degree to some extent triflingly uncommonly under no circumstances unfrequently unoften very very seldom weakly