Hardly

Definitions: Hardly

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.

2. Almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator".

Date "hardly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Hardly \Hard"ly\, adverb. [from Anglo-Saxon expression heardlice. See Hand.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Hardly

Domain	Definitions
Tips from 1870	Usage: Not, Hardly. "I cannot stop to tell you hardly any of the adventures that befell Theseus." Change cannot to can. "I have not had a moment's time to read hardly since I left school." Say, "I have hardly a moment's time," etc. Source: Slips of Speech.
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Difficulty	Adverb: with difficulty, with much ado; barely, hardly; Adjective: uphill; against the stream, against the grain; d rebours; invita Minerva; in the teeth of; at a pinch, upon a pinch; at long odds, against long odds.
Fewness	Adjective: few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent; rari nantes; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers; reduced; Verb: unrepeated.
Infrequency	Adverb: seldom, rarely, scarcely, hardly; not often, not much, infrequently, unfrequently, unoften; scarcely, scarcely ever, hardly ever; once in a blue moon.
Severity	Assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully; tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon; bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon; ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron, chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample under foot; tread under foot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke; hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce; give no quarter; (pitiless) a.
Smallness	Trifle; (unimportant thing); mere nothing, next to nothing; hardly anything; just enough to swear by; the shadow of a shade.
	Almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but; near upon, close upon; peu s'en faut, near the mark; within an ace of, within an inch of; on the brink of; scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than. about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say; be the same, be little more or less. no ways, no way, no wise; not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow; in no wise, in no respect; by no means, by no manner of means; on no account, at no hand.
Unconformity	I could hardly believe it; I saw it, but I didn't believe it.
Unimportance	Nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter; Adjective:; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose; child's play, kinderspiel.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) Hardly, Dude. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) It is hardly possible to separate you, even when he is summoned to a secret council and you are not. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Not hardly. (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) They reminded me so much of myself, I could hardly bear to look at them. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)
Lyrics	You can hardly wait to tell all your friends ("Invisible Man"; performing artist: 98 Degrees) Tight pants points hardly reknown ("Night Moves"; performing artist: BOB SEGER) I hardly noticed Sally as we parted company ("Good Company"; performing artist: Queen) You would hardly recognize me I'm so glad ("The Sign"; performing artist: Ace Of Base) Honesty is hardly ever heard ("Honesty"; performing artist: Billy Joel)
Movie/TV Titles	The Hardly Married (1974) I Can Hardly Wait (1943) Can't Hardly Wait (1998) The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold (1995) I Hardly Knew Ya Abby (1995)
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Domain	Title
Books	A Ghost in the Closet: A Hardly Boys Mystery (reference) Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (reference) Fine, but Hardly Dandy-Book II: An Expose' in True to Life Narrative (reference) I Can Hardly Wait (The Three Stooges) (reference) I Can Hardly Wait for Christmas (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Hardly Angels - an all girl snowboard film (reference) The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Hardly Blinking (reference) Hardly Glamour (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Premature baby weighing hardly more than a kilogram. / WHO photo.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Author	Quotation
Aristotle	Everyone thinks chiefly of his own, hardly ever of the public interest.
Georg C. Lichtenberg	If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
Henry Fielding	Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Jane Austen	Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jerrold	The character that needs law to mend it, is hardly worth the tinkering.
Plato	I have hardly ever known a mathamatician who was capable of reasoning.
Publilius Syrus	A god could hardly love and be wise.
Thomas Carlyle	One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
William Wycherley	Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	They are hardly to be prevailed with to amend the acknowledged faults in the frame they have been accustomed to. (Second Treatise of Government)
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Had you witnessed my behaviour there, I can hardly suppose you would ever have thought well of me again.
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	He had hardly done so before the Professor was back again, quite out of breath.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency	Douglas Adams	In Islington you can hardly hurl a brick without hitting three antique shops, an estate agent and a bookshop.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	He was small in stature, with a furrowed visage, which, as yet, could hardly be termed aged.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	She could hardly think, her ideas were like a tangled skein in her brain.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He felt that he was hardly of the one blood with them but stood to them rather in the mystical kinship of fosterage, fosterchild and fosterbrother.
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury	Mr. Dark nodded, pleased. "What's your name, boy?" Don't tell him! thought Will, and stopped. Why not? he wondered, why? Jim's lips hardly twitched. "Simon," he said. He smiled to show it was a lie. Mr. Dark smiled to show he knew it.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	In the ditch the cars were hardly visible under the starlight.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	For your mouths lying flat with your faces, you can hardly bite each other to any purpose, unless by consent.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Let's create an imaginary scenario and go through the process step by step. Say you have a storage room in your home that you hardly ever enter. (references)
Business		Although SUV owners in Germany hardly ever use their vehicles off-road, they want their vehicles to look sporty. (references)
		Another effect on the market due to the high taxation of cars is that there are hardly any automatic cars in Greece. (references)
		The influence of the public sector, however, is hardly felt and all major companies operate like private sector firms. (references)
Economic History	Chad	Mining is a sector whose potential has hardly been explored by foreign firms. (references)
	India	In the former, whatever was produced was sold easily, and advertising was hardly necessary. (references)
	Bolivia	The country abounds in other sites that are difficult to reach and hardly explored by archaeologists. (references)
Political Economy	Pakistan	Hardly 10% of the people regularly read newspapers and over 90% of them read Urdu papers which are not noted for their objectivity, fairness or accuracy. (references)
	Georgia	The situation is hardly hopeless if there can be progress on paying wages and salaries, improving management, reducing corruption and securing multiple energy supplies, foreign and local. (references)
Trade	Hungary	Financing via issuance of corporate bonds is very limited, as the corporate bond market hardly exists. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes."
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Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	99.62%	8,792	1,090
Noun (proper)	0.38%	34	59,261
Total	100.00%	8,826	N/A

Expressions using "hardly": hardly a ♦ hardly anything ♦ hardly ever ♦ hardly profitable ♦ hardly smb. ♦ hardly visible ♦ he can hardly write ♦ i hardly know him. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "hardly": hardly-used.
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Language		Translations for "hardly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		skaars (barely, only, only just, rare, scarcely), bekwaald (ailing, barely, only, only just, scarcely), ampertjies (barely, only, only just, scarcely), amper (almost, barely, nearly, only, only just, scarcely). (various references)

Albanian		mezi (barely, depth, narrowly, nearly, only just, scarcely). (various references)

Arabic		‏نادرا ما (seldom), ‏بقوة (heatedly, highly, mightily, narrowly, pithily, robustly, square, strongly, substantially), ‏بقسوة (roughly, severely), ‏بصعوبة (barely, heavily, ill, scarcely, with difficulty), ‏بالكاد (barely), ‏بالجهد, ‏بشق النفس (narrowly). (various references)

Bulgarian		с мъка, жестоко (rough), едва що (scarce, scarcely), едва ли (ill, scarce, scarcely), едва (barely, but, faintly, fine, just, lightly, narrowly, scarce, scarcely), лошо (bad, badly, ill, mis-, poorly). (various references)

Chinese		毫不 (not at all, not in the least), 幾乎不 (seems not), � 乎不. (various references)

Czech		tvrdì (harshly, sorely), stìží (barely, scarcely likely), sotva (barely, just, no sooner than, scarcely), skoro (about, all but, almost, nearly, practically), jen tak tak (scarcely). (various references)

Danish		knæppe (barely, only just, scarcely). (various references)

Dutch		amper (barely, only just, scarcely). (various references)

Esperanto		malfacile (not easily, with difficulty), apenaŭ (barely, only just, scarcely). (various references)

Faeroese		valla (barely, only just, scarcely), neyvan (barely, only just, scarcely). (various references)

Finnish		tuskin (barely, only just, scarcely). (various references)

French		péniblement, ne ... guère, � peine (hardly ever). (various references)

Frisian		kwealik (barely, only just, scarcely), amper (barely, only just, scarcely). (various references)

German		kaum (barely, little (less, only just, scarce, scarcely, scarcly, thinly), hart (astringent, callous, callously, cruel, cut, firm, grim, hard, hard boiled, hard core, harsh, harshly, punishing, rigorous, rigorously, robust, rough, roughly, rude, severe, severely, sharp, sharply, stable, steely, stiff, strong, tough, unsympathetically, unyielding, violent), schwerlich (gravely, heavily, little (less, scarce, scarcely). (various references)

Greek		στενόχωρα (in straits, uncomfortably), μόλισ (barely, but, just, narrowly, only just, scanty, scarcely), με δυσκολίαν. (various references)

Hawaiian		mezi (barely, only just, scarcely). (various references)

Hebrew		כמעט שלא (scarcely), בקושי (barely, with difficulty). (various references)

Hungarian		alig (barely, by the skin of one's, faint, hardly ever, imperceptibly, just, little or not at all, narrowly, only just, scantily, scarcely, slightly, sparingly). (various references)

Indonesian		hampir tidak (barely), sukar (ardous, difficult, hard). (various references)

Italian		appena (as soon as, barely, freshly, just, merely, new, only, only just, scarcely, soon, sooner). (various references)

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	aegre, aegre egre (adv.), aegre, egre, tantum, tantumque, vix. (various references)
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Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 12, Verse 40
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Oi katesqionteV taV oikiaV twn chrwn kai profasei makra proseucomenoi outoi lhyontai perissoteron krima
Latin	405	Vulgate	Qui devorant domos viduarum sub obtentu prolixae orationis hii accipient prolixius iudicium
Old English	990	West Saxon	þa þe wudewena hus for-swelged midheora langsumen ge-bedan. Þa on-foð længestnedom.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Whiche deuouren the housis of widewis vndur colour of long preier; thei schulen take the longer doom.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And devoure widowes houses and that vnder coloure of longe prayinge. These shall receave greater dampnacion.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.
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Language	Mark Chapter 12, Verse 40
Bulgarian	тия, които изпояждат домовете на вдовиците, даже когато за показ принасят дълги молитви. Тия ще приемат по-голямо осъждение.
Cebuano	sila nga nagasubad sa katigayonan sa mga babayeng balo, ug aron sa pagtabontabon niini nagahimo sila sa hatag-as nga mga pangadye. Mahiaguman ra nila ang labi pa ka mabug-at nga hukom sa silot."
Chinese	他們侵吞寡婦的家 �"� 、假意作很長的禱告．這些人要受更重的刑罰。
Croatian	proždiru kuæe udovièke, još pod izlikom dugih molitava. Stiæi æe ih to oštrija osuda!"
Danish	de, som opæde Enkers Huse og på Skrømt bede længe, disse skulle få des hårdere Dom."
Dutch	Welke de huizen der weduwen opeten, en dat onder den schijn van lang te bidden. Dezen zullen zwaarder oordeel ontvangen.
Finnish	noita, jotka syövät leskien huoneet ja näön vuoksi pitävät pitkiä rukouksia; he saavat sitä kovemman tuomion".
French	qui dévorent les maisons des veuves, et qui font pour l`apparence de longues prières. Ils seront jugés plus sévèrement.
Gaelic	A shluigeas tighean bhantrach air sgath urnaighean fada: gheibh iad sin binn nas cruaidhe.
German	sie fressen der Witwen Häuser und wenden langes Gebet vor. Diese werden desto mehr Verdammnis empfangen.
Haitian Creole	Se piye y'ap piye malerèz yo, an menm tan y'ap plede fè lapriyè byen long pou parèt pi bon. Kondannasyon yo pral pi rèd.
Hungarian	A kik az özvegyeknek házát fölemésztik és színbõl hosszan imádkoznak: ezek súlyosabb ítélet alá esnek.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Mereka menipu janda-janda dan merampas rumahnya. Dan untuk menutupi kejahatan mereka itu, mereka berdoa panjang-panjang. Hukuman mereka nanti berat!"
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	dan yang menghabiskan harta segala janda, dan melanjutkan doanya dengan jalan berpura-pura; mereka itu pun akan terkena hukum yang terlebih berat."
Italian	Divorano le case delle vedove e ostentano di fare lunghe preghiere; essi riceveranno una condanna più grave».
Korean	� � 희 �" 과 부 의 가 산 을 삼 키 며 외 식 으 로 길 게 기 도 하 �" 자 니 그 받 �" 판 결 이 �" 욱 중 하 리 라' 하 시 니 라
Latvian	Kas garu lûgðanu iemesla dçï aprij atraitòu namus; ðie saòems smagâku sodu.
Maori	Ka pau nei i a ratou nga whare o nga pouaru, a ka maminga ki te inoi roa: he nui rawa te mate e pa ki enei.
Modern Greek	Οιτινες κατατρωγουσι τας οικιας των χηρων, και τουτο επι προφασει οτι καμνουσι μακρας προσευχας· ουτοι θελουσι λαβει μεγαλητεραν καταδικην.
Norwegian	de som opeter enkers hus og for et syns skyld holder lange bønner! Disse skal få dess hårdere dom.
Portuguese	que devoram as casas das viúvas, e por pretexto fazem longas orações; estes hão de receber muito maior condenação.
Rumanian	casele vqduvelor le mqnkncq, wi fac rugqciuni lungi de ochii lumii. O mai mare oskndq va veni peste ei.``
Russian	УЙЙ, � ПС�"БАЭЙЕ �"ПНЩ Ч�"ПЧ Й ОБ� ПЛБЪ �"ПМЗП НПМСЭЙЕУС, � ТЙНХФ ФСЗЮБКЫЕЕ ПУХЦ�"ЕОЙЕ.
Shuar	Tura wajé jeencha atantainiawai. Túrawar aents nekaracharat tusar ti esaram chichamjai Yúsan áujainiawai. Nincha chikichjai nankaamas Yus asutiawartatui" Tímiayi.
Spanish	Éstos, que devoran las casas de las viudas y como pretexto hacen largas oraciones, recibirán mayor condenación.
Swahili	Huwanyonya wajane huku wakijisingizia kusali sala ndefu. Siku ya hukumu watapata adhabu kali!"
Swedish	detta under det att de utsuga änkors hus, medan de för syns skull hålla långa böner. De skola få en dess hårdare dom."
Thai	เขาริบเอาเรือนของหญิงม่าย และแสร้งอธิษฐานเสียยื�"ยาว คนเหล่านี้จะไ�"้รับความฉิบหายมากยิ่งขึ้น"
Ukrainian	що вдовині хати поїдають, і моляться довго напоказ, вони тяжче осудження приймуть!
Uma	Mpobagiu-ra tobine tobalu, pai' -ra mpohagoi tomi-ra. Rawunii' kadada'a gau' -ra tohe'e hante mosampaya rapomoloe-loe. Motomo lia mpai' huku' -ra."
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day
hardly	7
hardly i johnny knew ye	4
hardly working	3
hardly heather	2
chase hardly	2
bitch black fucked hardly	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Hardly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hadly, handly, Hardeley, hardl, hardle, Hardley, Harklie, Hartl, Hartly, hasrul, Heartly, hirly, hortly, shardly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hardly" (pronounced hÄ"rdlē)
4	-r d l ē	weirdly.
3	-d l ē	absurdly, acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, belatedly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, candidly, coldly, contentedly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, Diddley, doggedly, downwardly, evenhandedly, excitedly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, guardedly, haphazardly, heatedly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, kindly, loudly, madly, markedly, medley, mildly, niggardly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, placidly, pointedly, profoundly, proudly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, Ridley, rigidly, roundly, rudely, ruggedly, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, solidly, soundly, splendidly, straightforwardly, stupidly, supposedly, thirdly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unfriendly, ungodly, unprecedentedly, upwardly, validly, vividly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, widely, wildly, worldly, wretchedly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-h-l-r-y"
	-1 letter: hardy, hydra, lardy, lyard.
	-2 letters: aryl, dahl, dhal, dray, hard, harl, hyla, lady, lard, yald, yard.
	-3 letters: dah, dal, day, dry, had, hay, lad, lar, lay, rad, rah, ray, rya, yah, yar.
	-4 letters: ad, ah, al, ar, ay, ha, la, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-h-l-r-y"
	+1 letter: halyard, hardily.
	+2 letters: charlady, halyards, haulyard, heraldry.
	+3 letters: chandlery, chrysalid, foolhardy, haggardly, haulyards, holidayer, hydraulic, hydrolase, polyhedra, thyroidal.
	+4 letters: adherently, chrysalids, dwarfishly, holidayers, hydraulics, hydrolases, hydroplane, hypodermal, polyhedral, preholiday, schoolyard.
	+5 letters: chrysalides, foolhardily, haphazardly, hazardously, hydralazine, hydrolysate, hydrolyzate, hydroplaned, hydroplanes, hydroxylase, hydroxylate, paraldehyde, schoolyards.
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Hardly

Definitions: Hardly

Hardly

Adverb

Specialty Definitions: Hardly

Synonyms: Hardly

Synonyms within Context: Hardly

Difficulty

Fewness

Infrequency

Severity

Smallness

Unconformity

Unimportance

Crosswords: Hardly

Modern Usage: Hardly

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Commercial Usage: Hardly

Books

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Photo Album: Hardly

Familiar Quotations: Hardly

Aristotle

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Henry Fielding

Jane Austen

Jerrold

Plato

Publilius Syrus

Thomas Carlyle

William Wycherley

Historic Usage: Hardly

John Locke

Use in Literature: Hardly

Emma

Austen, Jane

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Douglas Adams

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Hardly

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Hardly

Expressions: Hardly

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hardly

hardly

hardly i johnny knew ye

hardly working

hardly heather

chase hardly

bitch black fucked hardly

Modern Translations: Hardly

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