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English Dictionary: hardly	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hardly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hardly adv 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 Synonym(s): barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator" Synonym(s): hardly, scarcely
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hardly \Hard"ly\, adv. [AS. heardlice. See {Hand}.] 1. In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty. Recovering hardly what he lost before. --Dryden. 2. Unwillingly; grudgingly. The House of Peers gave so hardly thei[?] consent. --Milton. 3. Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly. Hardly shall you one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good. --South. 4. Severely; harshly; roughly. He has in many things been hardly used. --Swift. 5. Confidently; hardily. [Obs.] --Holland. 6. Certainly; surely; indeed. [Obs.] --Chaucer.