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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hardly adv 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 [syn: {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" [syn: {scarcely}]
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