hardly

[hard·ly]

The adverb hardly means barely or scarcely at all. If you hardly ever visit your cousins in California, it means you almost never travel to see them.

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In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.

Adverb
by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats

Adverb
almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"


adv.
In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.

adv.
Unwillingly; grudgingly.

adv.
Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly.

adv.
Severely; harshly; roughly.

adv.
Confidently; hardily.

adv.
Certainly; surely; indeed.


Hardly

Hard"ly , adv. [AS.heardlice. See Hand.] 1. In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.
Recovering hardly what he lost before.
2. Unwillingly; grudgingly.
The House of Peers gave so hardly thei consent.
3. Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly.
Hardly shall you one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good.
4. Severely; harshly; roughly.
He has in many things been hardly used.
5. Confidently; hardily. [Obs.] Holland. 6. Certainly; surely; indeed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.

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Usage Examples

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.

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