Hardly

Adverb

 * 1)  Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.
 * 2) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 148:
 * Let him hardly be possest with an honest curiositie to search out the nature and causes of all things [...].
 * 1)  Harshly, severely.
 * I can't really deal hardly with people.
 * 1)  With difficulty.
 * 2) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1, p. 234:
 * And what gentle flame soever doth warme the heart of young virgins, yet are they hardly drawne to leave and forgoe their mothers, to betake them to their husbands [...].
 * He made his way hardly through the enemies to the castle.
 * 1)  Barely, only just, almost not.
 * I hardly ever watch television.
 * I hardly think they'll come in this bad weather.
 * It is hardly possible he could lose the election.

Synonyms

 * scarcely

Interjection

 * 1) Not really.
 * I think the Beatles are a really overrated band. &#x2015; Hardly!

Thesaurus
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

Adverb

 * Icelandic: af hörku, hakalega


 * Portuguese:


 * Catalan: a penes
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 几乎不 (jīhū bù)
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: tuskin, töin tuskin, hädin tuskin
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hindi: थोड़े
 * Icelandic: með naumindum, naumlega, ekki meira en svo, varla, tæplega, með erfiði, með fyrirhöfn


 * Ido: apene
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Portuguese: quase não
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: air èiginn
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Yiddish: קוים (koym)


 * : tek
 * : quasi, mica


 * : dūrē
 * : så vidt