Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   hardly

   /ˈhɑːdli/

   adverb

   • 1. scarcely (used to qualify a statement by saying that it is true to an insignificant degree): "the little house in which he lived was hardly bigger than a hut" Similar scarcelybarelyonly justnot muchfaintlynarrowlyslightlyrarelylittleby a very small marginby the narrowest of marginsby the skin of one's teethby a hair's breadthby a nosealmost notnot quiteinformal:by a whiskerOpposite fully
   • ▪ only a very short time before: "the party had hardly started when the police arrived"
   • ▪ only with great difficulty: "she could hardly sit up" Similar only with difficultybarelyscarcelyonly with effortonly justalmost notinformal:at a pushOpposite easily
   • ▪ no or not (suggesting surprise at or disagreement with a statement): "I hardly think so"
   • 2. harshly: archaic "the rule worked hardly"

   Scrabble Points: 13

   • H

     4

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • D

     2

   • L

     1

   • Y

     4

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points