Hardly A

Definition: Hardly A

Hardly A

Adjective

1. Very few; "hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous date and year".

Synonym: Hardly A

Synonym: hardly a(a) (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Hardly A

English words defined with "hardly a": background, background signal, barely ♦ hardly ♦ ill ♦ just ♦ Metallic paper ♦ Pilgarlic ♦ scarce, scarcely ♦ technical ♦ Un- ♦ word. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hardly a": Altar, Amiga, Apparel ♦ Bridge ♦ Coffee Mill, Collar ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ Hardly ♦ INCOME ♦ limb ♦ Mouse ♦ Not ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, resplendent ♦ Shandean Exactness, soul, story. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	That's hardly a subsitute. (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld	There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
Oscar Wilde	The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Society has hardly a suspicion of this work of undermining which, without touching its surface, changes its substance.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language		Translations for "hardly a"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		ardlyhay aay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: halyard.
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-h-l-r-y"
	-1 letter: hardly.
	-2 letters: alary, hadal, hardy, hydra, lahar, lardy, lyard, rayah.
	-3 letters: alar, aryl, ayah, dahl, dhal, dray, haar, hard, harl, hyla, lady, lard, raya, yald, yard.
	-4 letters: aah, aal, aha, ala, dah, dal, day, dry, had, hay, lad, lar, lay, rad, rah, ray, rya, yah, yar.
	-5 letters: aa, ad, ah, al, ar, ay, ha, la, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-h-l-r-y"
	+1 letter: charlady, halyards, haulyard.
	+2 letters: haggardly, haulyards.
	+4 letters: haphazardly, hazardously, hydralazine, paraldehyde.
	+5 letters: achlorhydria, hardheadedly, heraldically, holidaymaker, hydralazines, octahedrally, paraldehydes, rehydratable.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 72 64 6C 79 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#114 &#100 &#108 &#121 &#32 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0072 0064 006C 0079 0041

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Hardly A

Definition: Hardly A

Hardly A

Adjective

Synonym: Hardly A

Crosswords: Hardly A

Modern Usage: Hardly A

Screenplays

Familiar Quotations: Hardly A

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Oscar Wilde

Use in Literature: Hardly A

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Modern Translations: Hardly A

Pig Latin

Anagrams: Hardly A

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Hardly A

48 61 72 64 6C 79 41

01001000 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01000001

&#72 &#97 &#114 &#100 &#108 &#121 &#32 &#65

0048 0061 0072 0064 006C 0079 0041

426784707891235

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