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hardly
adv. with difficulty; barely, scarcely


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hardly
Adverb
1. 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
(synonym) barely, just, scarcely, scarce
2. almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"
(synonym) scarcely



Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Hardly
(adv.)
Unwillingly; grudgingly.
  
 
(adv.)
Severely; harshly; roughly.
  
 
(adv.)
Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly.
  
 
(adv.)
In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.
  
 
(adv.)
Confidently; hardily.
  
 
(adv.)
Certainly; surely; indeed.
  

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hardly
adj.
1. in a difficult manner
مشکل،‌دقت يا دشواري سے, بہ دشواري, بدقت, بمشکل
2. barely
تھوڑا, تھوڑا سا, ذرا سا, کم, کمتر, شايد
3. severely
سختي سے

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hardly
Synonyms and related words:
a bit, a little, abnormally, arduously, at infrequent intervals, badly, barely, bitterly, burdensomely, by a hair, by an ace, by no means, closely, difficultly, energetically, ever so little, exiguously, faintly, feebly, fiercely, firmly, forcefully, forcibly, frenziedly, furiously, hardly ever, harshly, imperfectly, impliably, inappreciably, inconsequentially, incredibly, inexorably, inflexibly, infrequently, insignificantly, ironhandedly, just, just a bit, keenly, laboriously, lightly, little, madly, meagerly, might and main, mightily, minimally, minutely, narrowly, nearly, negligibly, not hardly, not often, not quite, obdurately, onerously, only, only just, painfully, powerfully, rancorously, rarely, relentlessly, rigidly, rigorously, roughly, scantily, scarce, scarcely, scarcely ever, seldom, seldom if ever, severely, slightly, solid, solidly, sorely, sparsely, stiffly, stormily, strenuously, strongly, tant soit peu, the hard way, toilsomely, triflingly, turbulently, unbendingly, uncommonly, uncompromisingly, uncustomarily, unexpectedly, unfrequently, unnaturally, unoften, unordinarily, unrelentingly, unusually, unyieldingly, very seldom, vigorously, violently, weakly, wildly, with difficulty, with much ado
  

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