What does hardly mean?
Definitions for hardly
ˈhɑrd lihard·ly
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word hardly.
Princeton's WordNet
barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarceadverb
only a very short time before
"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
hardly, scarcelyadverb
almost not
"he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"
Wiktionary
hardlyadverb
Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.
hardlyadverb
Harshly, severely.
I can't really deal hardly with people.
hardlyadverb
With difficulty.
hardlyadverb
Barely, only just, almost not.
hardlyinterjection
Not really.
I think the Beatles are a really overrated band. uE000138303uE001 Hardly!
Webster Dictionary
Hardlyadverb
in a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty
Etymology: [AS. heardlice. See Hard.]
Hardlyadverb
unwillingly; grudgingly
Etymology: [AS. heardlice. See Hard.]
Hardlyadverb
scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly
Etymology: [AS. heardlice. See Hard.]
Hardlyadverb
severely; harshly; roughly
Etymology: [AS. heardlice. See Hard.]
Hardlyadverb
confidently; hardily
Etymology: [AS. heardlice. See Hard.]
Hardlyadverb
certainly; surely; indeed
Etymology: [AS. heardlice. See Hard.]
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'hardly' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1154
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'hardly' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1468
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'hardly' in Adverbs Frequency: #112
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hardly in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hardly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of hardly in a Sentence
Capital, land, labour and entrepreneurship are indispensable factors of production. Likewise, self-esteem and self-confidence are prerequisites for achievement of genuine success. Yes! for until and unless you value yourself and believe in yourself as well as in your ability, you will hardly achieve genuine success. ~Emeasoba George
I don't think she will take up any other position, I think that she will actually retire and just enjoy doing the things she has hardly been able to do in the last 20, 30 years.
When I was working in Kahaani…, I hardly got time to watch even one episode of any show. However, after Kahaani…, I have been relaxing and watching two Balaji shows regularly – Bandini and Kitni Mohabbat Hai and am liking both of them. Another serial I have been following is Balika Badhu – it is one of the best ongoing shows today. However, in the last few days there is some interior work that is going on in my house and thus I am not being able to watch television.
1. If you feel lonely then you need a bigger bed. There is no feeling of loneliness - it's just fear of the future and laziness. 2. The higher the intelligence, the less craving for sex and fears. 3. Logic is the pixels of reality. They are getting smaller and smaller. 4. Look at this old residential building. The basis of life is economics and marketing as at the base of a building. Maybe the human universe has turned into this. Morality is rotten and only greed remains. 5. Inevitability shapes us, or we shape inevitability. 6. Alone, we feel cold and dead like ice. We hardly feel suffering because insensibility dulls the pain of despair. Feeling insensible is the worst pain in the world. Feel dead from loneliness. 7. The coldness of loneliness burns with insensibility and endless emptiness. 8. The coldness of unfeeling loneliness causes rejection, but at the same time the attraction to warm from loneliness with the warmth of sympathy. 9. Through fire, a person communicates with nature with the spirits of ancestors who are the basis of culture and nature. This forms the full value of being, life experiences are combined into a single chain of meaning. 10. it is not just communication with nature, it is communication with true reality and the universe itself. City life is a fictional reality of marketing. 11. Time shapes goals and life path is most often formed from inevitability and chance. 12. We are moving in the void of nonsense. In a fog of illusion. And only time directs us it sober us up from nonsense. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either.
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- بالكادArabic
- едвамBulgarian
- a penesCatalan, Valencian
- sotva, stěžíCzech
- knapDanish
- kaumGerman
- apenaŭEsperanto
- apenasSpanish
- tuskin, hädin tuskin, töin tuskinFinnish
- neyvanFaroese
- guère, dur, durement, à peineFrench
- ní móideIrish
- air èiginnScottish Gaelic
- בקושיHebrew
- थोड़ेHindi
- apeneIdo
- hakalega, ekki meira en svo, með erfiði, af hörku, naumlega, með naumindum, varla, með fyrirhöfn, tæplegaIcelandic
- appenaItalian
- ಕಷ್ಟದಿಂದKannada
- ئاستهم, جارجارKurdish
- pitoiti, pitoiptoitiMāori
- одвај, едвајMacedonian
- nauwelijksDutch
- neppeNorwegian
- gaireOccitan
- quase não, severamentePortuguese
- abiaRomanian
- жёстко, еле, резко, едва, суровоRussian
- jedvaSerbo-Croatian
- knappast, knapptSwedish
- அரிதாகத்தான்Tamil
- ледвеUkrainian
- קויםYiddish
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