Definition of hardly in English:

hardly

adverb ˈhɑːdliˈhɑrdli

1Scarcely (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
a thing hardly bigger than a credit card
we hardly know each other
Example sentencesExamples
- The short multi-party history, however, shows that this desire hardly comes true and is never realized for long.
- Sorry, I have to go, and this hardly even qualifies as a post, back later…
- It all seemed like a mad dream that couldn't possibly be true but also could hardly be otherwise, and Sophia couldn't escape it.
- Even that hardly ensures true objectivity - whatever that is - but it's probably the best we can hope for.
- The next two decades saw a blossoming of academic philosophy on a scale hardly imaginable just a short time earlier.
- Rather and company may have been fed phony documents, but the basic story is obviously true and hardly disputed.
- To those who read the early version of this, yes its true I can hardly think nor spell today.
- If true, it's hardly inspirational to the troops.
- A degree in theatre arts hardly qualifies me as a nutritionist or a psychologist.
- Now, Sara and I hardly qualify as informed critics of modern television.
- Perhaps this is why beauty hardly qualifies as an aesthetic category any more.
- His mother, Francis Fiddler, was so stunned by the news last night that she could hardly believe it was true.
- As time went by, a subtle change began to overtake her, transforming her by degrees into another person hardly recognizable to her children.
- Frans Snyders's Concert of Birds hardly qualifies even as second-rate.
- It is true hardly anyone waits a year for surgery any more but the average wait is still 49 days, compared with 43 in 1999.
- Like a true Melbourne audience hardly anyone at all got up to flee from the rain.
- Although I knew that technically wasn't true because I had hardly been there for her since Danny died.
- I wasn't always a Bowie fan, and, to be honest, I'm hardly qualified to call myself one today.
- If Judas were among the saved, these statements could hardly be true.
- Looking at Qin Yi's wrinkle-free face and her smooth, white complexion, one can hardly guess her true age.
Synonyms
scarcely, barely, only just, not much, faintly, narrowly, slightly, rarely, little
by a very small margin, by the narrowest of margins, by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth, by a nose
almost not, not quite
informal by a whisker
1. 1.1 Only a very short time before.
  the party had hardly started when the police arrived
  Example sentencesExamples
  Kitano had hardly sat foot in Venice, before a invitation only press screening and later the same day the first public screening took place.
  Southwell had hardly sat down when the price was being paid, with Jerry Flannery on the tail end of an irresistible maul.
  He had hardly sat down and received his fork before starting to wolf down her home-cooked meal.
  The reforms of the NHS may have tested his ability to carry the party with him but they have hardly begun.
  I mean, a person can hardly sit down today without a movie or without music or something going on.
  She wanted so badly to go to this strange man and his lessons that she could hardly sit down without getting up a second later.
  We can hardly sit down in the food court without at least one group of girls coming over and asking for our numbers or telling us we were cute.
2. 1.2 Only with great difficulty.
  she could hardly sit up
  I nodded, hardly able to breath
  Example sentencesExamples
  Michael was hardly able to think straight as he started to feel the effects of the pills, his vision foggy, and his mind a total mess.
  Like a child with a new toy, his spirit rose with each idea the group generated until he could hardly sit in his chair.
  She could hardly think straight as the sleepiness overwhelmed her.
  We could hardly eat, never sit still, and chattered endlessly about the hopes and possibilities for Christmas Day.
  By the time I got there, the rhythm section were the only ones left and hardly able to see straight.
  By lunch I could hardly sit still, I was on this crazy sugar rush that couldn't be contained.
  How on earth can someone who can hardly stand up straight be expected to work out how drunk they are and then decide how to get themselves home on the basis of that?
  I could hardly sit down the whole of the next day.
  I staggered around in my kitchen for a few minutes holding my gut while I laughed because I could hardly sit on my chair!
  I walk to the old chair that hardly still stands and sit down.
  She gets a terrible pain every time she tries to walk, and yet she is very restless, and can hardly stand to sit still.
  I could hardly stand it, sitting around another hour or so with the adults.
  I've ridden bikes for years, but nothing compares to this pain - I've hardly sat down for days.
  I can hardly sit on it without squeaks of joy… and I really dig the lamp they paired it with.
  Employees can hardly sit, idly waiting for new work to come along.
  She was so worn out she could hardly see straight, but she couldn't take her eyes from the stars.
  Now the 15-year-old club-mates can hardly bear to sit and watch the Games at home on television.
  We could hardly keep our faces straight and some of the musicians at the back desks laughed behind their music wholeheartedly.
  Barrie Rutter is in his element as a Sir John whose artificial belly means he can hardly get up or sit down, yet is always ready to caper at a lady.
  I could hardly see even straight ahead - the netting was against my eyes, so that I couldn't ignore it.
  Synonyms
  only with difficulty, barely, scarcely, only with effort, only just, almost not
  British informal at a push
3. 1.3 No or not (suggesting surprise at or disagreement with a statement)
  I hardly think so
  Example sentencesExamples
  It may be reasonable, but it hardly qualifies as a competent choice, even if it is successful.
  The ‘big fat’ series hardly qualifies as reality, nor does Survivor, for that matter!
  While there is nothing objectionable about such sponsorship, it hardly qualifies as community involvement.
  Kennedy is fully entitled to conduct his crusade to humble the medical profession, but this level of zeal hardly qualifies him for the conduct of a public inquiry.
  The higher ups never really considered the pressure they'd heaped on her but what I did hardly qualified as heroism.
  True, she is hardly a representative working mum - whatever that might be.
  Bomb making and inciting riots hardly qualify as youthful follies.
  Many do drink to excess on special occasions, but this hardly qualifies as dangerous binging.
  A rushed survey with a very small participation rate hardly qualifies as full consultation.
  In sharp contrast, across the mass-media landscape, average workers hardly qualify as noble.
  Nonetheless, despite the seemingly narrow focus, this outline is hardly insignificant.
  Some bloggers don't write very well, but that hardly qualifies as poetry.
  The casting of a man in the role of Miss Pink had no apparent intended significance, yet it could hardly be insignificant.
  Now, I think we can all agree that one of the closest elections in history can hardly qualify as a blowout.
  If it's true this was hardly a classic, it was a no holds barred derby with the occasional touch of class.
  But these murderers are hardly qualified to judge what is a ‘hate crime’ and what is not.
  It looked enormous, and even if you accept the police figure for some obscure reason, 45,000 is hardly an insignificant number.
  Still, at 58 degrees, that was hardly bath water lapping onto the sand near SeaWalk Pavilion.
  But that's hardly a true picture of what was available in that much-maligned decade.
  I think it's a salutory consequence, hardly insignificant, but it's not Job One.
  Writing and ranting that is neither clever nor funny hardly qualifies as banter.
  This sort of thing is rampant in the public sector though so hardly qualifies as news.
  But the maxim that you can fall in love at any age could hardly be more true than for James Foster and Barbara Scott.
  Even if true, that hardly proves the point that we should continue to turn a blind eye to those who are cheating the system.
  University administrators worry that too many students pursue business degrees, hardly a path of activism.
  That was, in many ways true, but it hardly justifies colonization.
  The binding nature of the court's legal opinion is hardly a matter of true concern for Zionists.
  A person who is in the throes of an addiction is hardly qualified to make that decision.
  True, he was hardly put under pressure at the back but at least he busied himself around the field and was a particular threat up front.
  The surly behaviour of the United camp to the foreign media has hardly qualified as a charm offensive on either front.
  That hardly qualifies as an irrational act of an immoderate president.
  Now being a Texas resident for the past five years might make me a citizen of the state, but it hardly qualifies me as a true Texan.
2archaic Harshly.
the rule worked hardly

Usage

Words like hardly, scarcely, and rarely should not be used with negative constructions. Thus, it is correct to say I can hardly wait but incorrect to say I can't hardly wait. This is because adverbs like hardly are treated as if they were negatives, and it is a well-known grammatical rule of standard English that double negatives (i.e. in this case having hardly and not in the same clause) are not acceptable. Words like hardly behave as negatives in other respects as well, as for example in combining with words like any or at all, which normally only occur where a negative is present (thus, standard usage is I've got hardly any money but not I've got any money). See also double negative

Phrases

hardly any

1Almost no.
they sold hardly any books
1. 1.1Almost none.
  hardly any had previous convictions
  Example sentencesExamples
  In 1979, there were hardly any production companies and none of us were on the radar at that point.
  There were hardly any students of science or scientists in their ranks.
  There were people like that in my village too, as a child, but hardly any to speak of, and possibly none now.
  There is hardly any discussion of how to deal with global warming while generating substantial economic growth at the same time.
  There is hardly any inflation and the trade deficit is not as high as could have been expected.
  Until a few days ago, there was hardly any news in Danish newspapers and magazines about elections in India.
  There was hardly any wind at the start and to add to frustrations, north lake was busy as holidaymakers took advantage of the heatwave.
  Boxing, or rather a raw version of it with no gloves and hardly any rules, was part of the Ancient Games programme.
  He's in fact been all but invisible of late making hardly any public appearances.
  At first this sounds truly minimal: slow-moving layers of overlapping sound with hardly any pulse.
  Synonyms
  little, little or no, minimal, hardly any, limited, negligible, barely sufficient, meagre

hardly ever

Very rarely.
we hardly ever see them
Example sentencesExamples
- Dover Samuels is history, as are a bunch of Labour Maori MPs I have hardly ever heard of.
- We can hold our liquor and hardly ever shoot each other unless it's important.
- Children I know spend more time playing on computers and hardly ever read books.
- I was surprised, but he has always been fit and is hardly ever injured.
- The children are hardly ever picked up by the staff, or played with and many, including Ludmylla, were ill.
- That is probably why police reports are always lacking and the officers hardly ever show up at court.
- Look at tennis, where in any week there are as many as four or five events and the star names hardly ever compete against each other.
- Even where there are suspects who are charged, cases hardly ever get concluded.
- In fact, they hardly ever come to buy anything from my shop and even if they do I refuse to sell anything to them.
- The secret ballot has remained the envy of the world and the integrity of election results hardly ever questioned.
Synonyms
rarely, infrequently, on rare occasions, hardly ever, scarcely ever, hardly, scarcely, almost never, once in a while, every once in a while, only now and then, not often, only occasionally, sporadically

Definition of hardly in US English:

hardly

adverbˈhɑrdliˈhärdlē

1Scarcely (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
a thing hardly bigger than a credit card
we hardly know each other
Example sentencesExamples
- Like a true Melbourne audience hardly anyone at all got up to flee from the rain.
- I wasn't always a Bowie fan, and, to be honest, I'm hardly qualified to call myself one today.
- Looking at Qin Yi's wrinkle-free face and her smooth, white complexion, one can hardly guess her true age.
- As time went by, a subtle change began to overtake her, transforming her by degrees into another person hardly recognizable to her children.
- Although I knew that technically wasn't true because I had hardly been there for her since Danny died.
- A degree in theatre arts hardly qualifies me as a nutritionist or a psychologist.
- The next two decades saw a blossoming of academic philosophy on a scale hardly imaginable just a short time earlier.
- Perhaps this is why beauty hardly qualifies as an aesthetic category any more.
- If true, it's hardly inspirational to the troops.
- It is true hardly anyone waits a year for surgery any more but the average wait is still 49 days, compared with 43 in 1999.
- It all seemed like a mad dream that couldn't possibly be true but also could hardly be otherwise, and Sophia couldn't escape it.
- His mother, Francis Fiddler, was so stunned by the news last night that she could hardly believe it was true.
- The short multi-party history, however, shows that this desire hardly comes true and is never realized for long.
- If Judas were among the saved, these statements could hardly be true.
- Even that hardly ensures true objectivity - whatever that is - but it's probably the best we can hope for.
- Frans Snyders's Concert of Birds hardly qualifies even as second-rate.
- Sorry, I have to go, and this hardly even qualifies as a post, back later…
- To those who read the early version of this, yes its true I can hardly think nor spell today.
- Rather and company may have been fed phony documents, but the basic story is obviously true and hardly disputed.
- Now, Sara and I hardly qualify as informed critics of modern television.
Synonyms
scarcely, barely, only just, not much, faintly, narrowly, slightly, rarely, little
1. 1.1 Only a very short time before.
  the party had hardly started when the police arrived
  Example sentencesExamples
  I mean, a person can hardly sit down today without a movie or without music or something going on.
  The reforms of the NHS may have tested his ability to carry the party with him but they have hardly begun.
  She wanted so badly to go to this strange man and his lessons that she could hardly sit down without getting up a second later.
  Kitano had hardly sat foot in Venice, before a invitation only press screening and later the same day the first public screening took place.
  Southwell had hardly sat down when the price was being paid, with Jerry Flannery on the tail end of an irresistible maul.
  He had hardly sat down and received his fork before starting to wolf down her home-cooked meal.
  We can hardly sit down in the food court without at least one group of girls coming over and asking for our numbers or telling us we were cute.
2. 1.2 Only with great difficulty.
  she could hardly sit up
  I nodded, hardly able to breath
  Example sentencesExamples
  How on earth can someone who can hardly stand up straight be expected to work out how drunk they are and then decide how to get themselves home on the basis of that?
  I walk to the old chair that hardly still stands and sit down.
  We could hardly keep our faces straight and some of the musicians at the back desks laughed behind their music wholeheartedly.
  I can hardly sit on it without squeaks of joy… and I really dig the lamp they paired it with.
  We could hardly eat, never sit still, and chattered endlessly about the hopes and possibilities for Christmas Day.
  I could hardly see even straight ahead - the netting was against my eyes, so that I couldn't ignore it.
  I could hardly sit down the whole of the next day.
  By lunch I could hardly sit still, I was on this crazy sugar rush that couldn't be contained.
  She could hardly think straight as the sleepiness overwhelmed her.
  I've ridden bikes for years, but nothing compares to this pain - I've hardly sat down for days.
  Employees can hardly sit, idly waiting for new work to come along.
  I staggered around in my kitchen for a few minutes holding my gut while I laughed because I could hardly sit on my chair!
  By the time I got there, the rhythm section were the only ones left and hardly able to see straight.
  She gets a terrible pain every time she tries to walk, and yet she is very restless, and can hardly stand to sit still.
  I could hardly stand it, sitting around another hour or so with the adults.
  Barrie Rutter is in his element as a Sir John whose artificial belly means he can hardly get up or sit down, yet is always ready to caper at a lady.
  Michael was hardly able to think straight as he started to feel the effects of the pills, his vision foggy, and his mind a total mess.
  She was so worn out she could hardly see straight, but she couldn't take her eyes from the stars.
  Now the 15-year-old club-mates can hardly bear to sit and watch the Games at home on television.
  Like a child with a new toy, his spirit rose with each idea the group generated until he could hardly sit in his chair.
  Synonyms
  only with difficulty, barely, scarcely, only with effort, only just, almost not
3. 1.3 No or not (suggesting surprise at or disagreement with a statement)
  I hardly think so
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some bloggers don't write very well, but that hardly qualifies as poetry.
  I think it's a salutory consequence, hardly insignificant, but it's not Job One.
  The higher ups never really considered the pressure they'd heaped on her but what I did hardly qualified as heroism.
  It may be reasonable, but it hardly qualifies as a competent choice, even if it is successful.
  That hardly qualifies as an irrational act of an immoderate president.
  Still, at 58 degrees, that was hardly bath water lapping onto the sand near SeaWalk Pavilion.
  A person who is in the throes of an addiction is hardly qualified to make that decision.
  But the maxim that you can fall in love at any age could hardly be more true than for James Foster and Barbara Scott.
  This sort of thing is rampant in the public sector though so hardly qualifies as news.
  The binding nature of the court's legal opinion is hardly a matter of true concern for Zionists.
  Now being a Texas resident for the past five years might make me a citizen of the state, but it hardly qualifies me as a true Texan.
  Even if true, that hardly proves the point that we should continue to turn a blind eye to those who are cheating the system.
  Nonetheless, despite the seemingly narrow focus, this outline is hardly insignificant.
  If it's true this was hardly a classic, it was a no holds barred derby with the occasional touch of class.
  Bomb making and inciting riots hardly qualify as youthful follies.
  True, he was hardly put under pressure at the back but at least he busied himself around the field and was a particular threat up front.
  The ‘big fat’ series hardly qualifies as reality, nor does Survivor, for that matter!
  It looked enormous, and even if you accept the police figure for some obscure reason, 45,000 is hardly an insignificant number.
  University administrators worry that too many students pursue business degrees, hardly a path of activism.
  Now, I think we can all agree that one of the closest elections in history can hardly qualify as a blowout.
  That was, in many ways true, but it hardly justifies colonization.
  But that's hardly a true picture of what was available in that much-maligned decade.
  The surly behaviour of the United camp to the foreign media has hardly qualified as a charm offensive on either front.
  In sharp contrast, across the mass-media landscape, average workers hardly qualify as noble.
  Writing and ranting that is neither clever nor funny hardly qualifies as banter.
  The casting of a man in the role of Miss Pink had no apparent intended significance, yet it could hardly be insignificant.
  While there is nothing objectionable about such sponsorship, it hardly qualifies as community involvement.
  True, she is hardly a representative working mum - whatever that might be.
  Many do drink to excess on special occasions, but this hardly qualifies as dangerous binging.
  But these murderers are hardly qualified to judge what is a ‘hate crime’ and what is not.
  Kennedy is fully entitled to conduct his crusade to humble the medical profession, but this level of zeal hardly qualifies him for the conduct of a public inquiry.
  A rushed survey with a very small participation rate hardly qualifies as full consultation.
2archaic Harshly.
the rule worked hardly

Usage

Words like hardly, scarcely, and rarely should not be used with negative constructions. Thus, it is correct to say I can hardly wait but incorrect to say I can't hardly wait. This is because adverbs like hardly are treated as if they were negatives, and it is a grammatical rule of standard English that double negatives are not acceptable. Words like hardly behave as negatives in other respects as well, as for example in combining with terms such as any or at all, which normally occur only where a negative is present (thus, standard usage is I've got hardly any money, but not I've got any money). See also double negative

Phrases

hardly any

1Almost no.
they sold hardly any books
1. 1.1Almost none.
  hardly any had previous convictions
  Example sentencesExamples
  There were hardly any students of science or scientists in their ranks.
  In 1979, there were hardly any production companies and none of us were on the radar at that point.
  There is hardly any discussion of how to deal with global warming while generating substantial economic growth at the same time.
  Boxing, or rather a raw version of it with no gloves and hardly any rules, was part of the Ancient Games programme.
  There is hardly any inflation and the trade deficit is not as high as could have been expected.
  At first this sounds truly minimal: slow-moving layers of overlapping sound with hardly any pulse.
  There was hardly any wind at the start and to add to frustrations, north lake was busy as holidaymakers took advantage of the heatwave.
  He's in fact been all but invisible of late making hardly any public appearances.
  There were people like that in my village too, as a child, but hardly any to speak of, and possibly none now.
  Until a few days ago, there was hardly any news in Danish newspapers and magazines about elections in India.
  Synonyms
  little, little or no, minimal, hardly any, limited, negligible, barely sufficient, meagre

hardly ever

Very rarely.
we hardly ever see them
Example sentencesExamples
- Look at tennis, where in any week there are as many as four or five events and the star names hardly ever compete against each other.
- We can hold our liquor and hardly ever shoot each other unless it's important.
- The secret ballot has remained the envy of the world and the integrity of election results hardly ever questioned.
- In fact, they hardly ever come to buy anything from my shop and even if they do I refuse to sell anything to them.
- Children I know spend more time playing on computers and hardly ever read books.
- The children are hardly ever picked up by the staff, or played with and many, including Ludmylla, were ill.
- Even where there are suspects who are charged, cases hardly ever get concluded.
- That is probably why police reports are always lacking and the officers hardly ever show up at court.
- Dover Samuels is history, as are a bunch of Labour Maori MPs I have hardly ever heard of.
- I was surprised, but he has always been fit and is hardly ever injured.
Synonyms
rarely, infrequently, on rare occasions, hardly ever, scarcely ever, hardly, scarcely, almost never, once in a while, every once in a while, only now and then, not often, only occasionally, sporadically

单词	hardly
释义	Definition of hardly in English: hardly adverb ˈhɑːdliˈhɑrdli 1Scarcely (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 a thing hardly bigger than a credit card we hardly know each other Example sentencesExamples The short multi-party history, however, shows that this desire hardly comes true and is never realized for long. Sorry, I have to go, and this hardly even qualifies as a post, back later… It all seemed like a mad dream that couldn't possibly be true but also could hardly be otherwise, and Sophia couldn't escape it. Even that hardly ensures true objectivity - whatever that is - but it's probably the best we can hope for. The next two decades saw a blossoming of academic philosophy on a scale hardly imaginable just a short time earlier. Rather and company may have been fed phony documents, but the basic story is obviously true and hardly disputed. To those who read the early version of this, yes its true I can hardly think nor spell today. If true, it's hardly inspirational to the troops. A degree in theatre arts hardly qualifies me as a nutritionist or a psychologist. Now, Sara and I hardly qualify as informed critics of modern television. Perhaps this is why beauty hardly qualifies as an aesthetic category any more. His mother, Francis Fiddler, was so stunned by the news last night that she could hardly believe it was true. As time went by, a subtle change began to overtake her, transforming her by degrees into another person hardly recognizable to her children. Frans Snyders's Concert of Birds hardly qualifies even as second-rate. It is true hardly anyone waits a year for surgery any more but the average wait is still 49 days, compared with 43 in 1999. Like a true Melbourne audience hardly anyone at all got up to flee from the rain. Although I knew that technically wasn't true because I had hardly been there for her since Danny died. I wasn't always a Bowie fan, and, to be honest, I'm hardly qualified to call myself one today. If Judas were among the saved, these statements could hardly be true. Looking at Qin Yi's wrinkle-free face and her smooth, white complexion, one can hardly guess her true age. Synonyms scarcely, barely, only just, not much, faintly, narrowly, slightly, rarely, little by a very small margin, by the narrowest of margins, by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth, by a nose almost not, not quite informal by a whisker 1.1 Only a very short time before. the party had hardly started when the police arrived Example sentencesExamples Kitano had hardly sat foot in Venice, before a invitation only press screening and later the same day the first public screening took place. Southwell had hardly sat down when the price was being paid, with Jerry Flannery on the tail end of an irresistible maul. He had hardly sat down and received his fork before starting to wolf down her home-cooked meal. The reforms of the NHS may have tested his ability to carry the party with him but they have hardly begun. I mean, a person can hardly sit down today without a movie or without music or something going on. She wanted so badly to go to this strange man and his lessons that she could hardly sit down without getting up a second later. We can hardly sit down in the food court without at least one group of girls coming over and asking for our numbers or telling us we were cute. 1.2 Only with great difficulty. she could hardly sit up I nodded, hardly able to breath Example sentencesExamples Michael was hardly able to think straight as he started to feel the effects of the pills, his vision foggy, and his mind a total mess. Like a child with a new toy, his spirit rose with each idea the group generated until he could hardly sit in his chair. She could hardly think straight as the sleepiness overwhelmed her. We could hardly eat, never sit still, and chattered endlessly about the hopes and possibilities for Christmas Day. By the time I got there, the rhythm section were the only ones left and hardly able to see straight. By lunch I could hardly sit still, I was on this crazy sugar rush that couldn't be contained. How on earth can someone who can hardly stand up straight be expected to work out how drunk they are and then decide how to get themselves home on the basis of that? I could hardly sit down the whole of the next day. I staggered around in my kitchen for a few minutes holding my gut while I laughed because I could hardly sit on my chair! I walk to the old chair that hardly still stands and sit down. She gets a terrible pain every time she tries to walk, and yet she is very restless, and can hardly stand to sit still. I could hardly stand it, sitting around another hour or so with the adults. I've ridden bikes for years, but nothing compares to this pain - I've hardly sat down for days. I can hardly sit on it without squeaks of joy… and I really dig the lamp they paired it with. Employees can hardly sit, idly waiting for new work to come along. She was so worn out she could hardly see straight, but she couldn't take her eyes from the stars. Now the 15-year-old club-mates can hardly bear to sit and watch the Games at home on television. We could hardly keep our faces straight and some of the musicians at the back desks laughed behind their music wholeheartedly. Barrie Rutter is in his element as a Sir John whose artificial belly means he can hardly get up or sit down, yet is always ready to caper at a lady. I could hardly see even straight ahead - the netting was against my eyes, so that I couldn't ignore it. Synonyms only with difficulty, barely, scarcely, only with effort, only just, almost not British informal at a push 1.3 No or not (suggesting surprise at or disagreement with a statement) I hardly think so Example sentencesExamples It may be reasonable, but it hardly qualifies as a competent choice, even if it is successful. The ‘big fat’ series hardly qualifies as reality, nor does Survivor, for that matter! While there is nothing objectionable about such sponsorship, it hardly qualifies as community involvement. Kennedy is fully entitled to conduct his crusade to humble the medical profession, but this level of zeal hardly qualifies him for the conduct of a public inquiry. The higher ups never really considered the pressure they'd heaped on her but what I did hardly qualified as heroism. True, she is hardly a representative working mum - whatever that might be. Bomb making and inciting riots hardly qualify as youthful follies. Many do drink to excess on special occasions, but this hardly qualifies as dangerous binging. A rushed survey with a very small participation rate hardly qualifies as full consultation. In sharp contrast, across the mass-media landscape, average workers hardly qualify as noble. Nonetheless, despite the seemingly narrow focus, this outline is hardly insignificant. Some bloggers don't write very well, but that hardly qualifies as poetry. The casting of a man in the role of Miss Pink had no apparent intended significance, yet it could hardly be insignificant. Now, I think we can all agree that one of the closest elections in history can hardly qualify as a blowout. If it's true this was hardly a classic, it was a no holds barred derby with the occasional touch of class. But these murderers are hardly qualified to judge what is a ‘hate crime’ and what is not. It looked enormous, and even if you accept the police figure for some obscure reason, 45,000 is hardly an insignificant number. Still, at 58 degrees, that was hardly bath water lapping onto the sand near SeaWalk Pavilion. But that's hardly a true picture of what was available in that much-maligned decade. I think it's a salutory consequence, hardly insignificant, but it's not Job One. Writing and ranting that is neither clever nor funny hardly qualifies as banter. This sort of thing is rampant in the public sector though so hardly qualifies as news. But the maxim that you can fall in love at any age could hardly be more true than for James Foster and Barbara Scott. Even if true, that hardly proves the point that we should continue to turn a blind eye to those who are cheating the system. University administrators worry that too many students pursue business degrees, hardly a path of activism. That was, in many ways true, but it hardly justifies colonization. The binding nature of the court's legal opinion is hardly a matter of true concern for Zionists. A person who is in the throes of an addiction is hardly qualified to make that decision. True, he was hardly put under pressure at the back but at least he busied himself around the field and was a particular threat up front. The surly behaviour of the United camp to the foreign media has hardly qualified as a charm offensive on either front. That hardly qualifies as an irrational act of an immoderate president. Now being a Texas resident for the past five years might make me a citizen of the state, but it hardly qualifies me as a true Texan. 2archaic Harshly. the rule worked hardly Usage Words like hardly, scarcely, and rarely should not be used with negative constructions. Thus, it is correct to say I can hardly wait but incorrect to say I can't hardly wait. This is because adverbs like hardly are treated as if they were negatives, and it is a well-known grammatical rule of standard English that double negatives (i.e. in this case having hardly and not in the same clause) are not acceptable. Words like hardly behave as negatives in other respects as well, as for example in combining with words like any or at all, which normally only occur where a negative is present (thus, standard usage is I've got hardly any money but not I've got any money). See also double negative Phrases hardly any 1Almost no. they sold hardly any books 1.1Almost none. hardly any had previous convictions Example sentencesExamples In 1979, there were hardly any production companies and none of us were on the radar at that point. There were hardly any students of science or scientists in their ranks. There were people like that in my village too, as a child, but hardly any to speak of, and possibly none now. There is hardly any discussion of how to deal with global warming while generating substantial economic growth at the same time. There is hardly any inflation and the trade deficit is not as high as could have been expected. Until a few days ago, there was hardly any news in Danish newspapers and magazines about elections in India. There was hardly any wind at the start and to add to frustrations, north lake was busy as holidaymakers took advantage of the heatwave. Boxing, or rather a raw version of it with no gloves and hardly any rules, was part of the Ancient Games programme. He's in fact been all but invisible of late making hardly any public appearances. At first this sounds truly minimal: slow-moving layers of overlapping sound with hardly any pulse. Synonyms little, little or no, minimal, hardly any, limited, negligible, barely sufficient, meagre hardly ever Very rarely. we hardly ever see them Example sentencesExamples Dover Samuels is history, as are a bunch of Labour Maori MPs I have hardly ever heard of. We can hold our liquor and hardly ever shoot each other unless it's important. Children I know spend more time playing on computers and hardly ever read books. I was surprised, but he has always been fit and is hardly ever injured. The children are hardly ever picked up by the staff, or played with and many, including Ludmylla, were ill. That is probably why police reports are always lacking and the officers hardly ever show up at court. Look at tennis, where in any week there are as many as four or five events and the star names hardly ever compete against each other. Even where there are suspects who are charged, cases hardly ever get concluded. In fact, they hardly ever come to buy anything from my shop and even if they do I refuse to sell anything to them. The secret ballot has remained the envy of the world and the integrity of election results hardly ever questioned. Synonyms rarely, infrequently, on rare occasions, hardly ever, scarcely ever, hardly, scarcely, almost never, once in a while, every once in a while, only now and then, not often, only occasionally, sporadically adv..1 phr. Definition of hardly in US English: hardly adverbˈhɑrdliˈhärdlē 1Scarcely (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 a thing hardly bigger than a credit card we hardly know each other Example sentencesExamples Like a true Melbourne audience hardly anyone at all got up to flee from the rain. I wasn't always a Bowie fan, and, to be honest, I'm hardly qualified to call myself one today. Looking at Qin Yi's wrinkle-free face and her smooth, white complexion, one can hardly guess her true age. As time went by, a subtle change began to overtake her, transforming her by degrees into another person hardly recognizable to her children. Although I knew that technically wasn't true because I had hardly been there for her since Danny died. A degree in theatre arts hardly qualifies me as a nutritionist or a psychologist. The next two decades saw a blossoming of academic philosophy on a scale hardly imaginable just a short time earlier. Perhaps this is why beauty hardly qualifies as an aesthetic category any more. If true, it's hardly inspirational to the troops. It is true hardly anyone waits a year for surgery any more but the average wait is still 49 days, compared with 43 in 1999. It all seemed like a mad dream that couldn't possibly be true but also could hardly be otherwise, and Sophia couldn't escape it. His mother, Francis Fiddler, was so stunned by the news last night that she could hardly believe it was true. The short multi-party history, however, shows that this desire hardly comes true and is never realized for long. If Judas were among the saved, these statements could hardly be true. Even that hardly ensures true objectivity - whatever that is - but it's probably the best we can hope for. Frans Snyders's Concert of Birds hardly qualifies even as second-rate. Sorry, I have to go, and this hardly even qualifies as a post, back later… To those who read the early version of this, yes its true I can hardly think nor spell today. Rather and company may have been fed phony documents, but the basic story is obviously true and hardly disputed. Now, Sara and I hardly qualify as informed critics of modern television. Synonyms scarcely, barely, only just, not much, faintly, narrowly, slightly, rarely, little 1.1 Only a very short time before. the party had hardly started when the police arrived Example sentencesExamples I mean, a person can hardly sit down today without a movie or without music or something going on. The reforms of the NHS may have tested his ability to carry the party with him but they have hardly begun. She wanted so badly to go to this strange man and his lessons that she could hardly sit down without getting up a second later. Kitano had hardly sat foot in Venice, before a invitation only press screening and later the same day the first public screening took place. Southwell had hardly sat down when the price was being paid, with Jerry Flannery on the tail end of an irresistible maul. He had hardly sat down and received his fork before starting to wolf down her home-cooked meal. We can hardly sit down in the food court without at least one group of girls coming over and asking for our numbers or telling us we were cute. 1.2 Only with great difficulty. she could hardly sit up I nodded, hardly able to breath Example sentencesExamples How on earth can someone who can hardly stand up straight be expected to work out how drunk they are and then decide how to get themselves home on the basis of that? I walk to the old chair that hardly still stands and sit down. We could hardly keep our faces straight and some of the musicians at the back desks laughed behind their music wholeheartedly. I can hardly sit on it without squeaks of joy… and I really dig the lamp they paired it with. We could hardly eat, never sit still, and chattered endlessly about the hopes and possibilities for Christmas Day. I could hardly see even straight ahead - the netting was against my eyes, so that I couldn't ignore it. I could hardly sit down the whole of the next day. By lunch I could hardly sit still, I was on this crazy sugar rush that couldn't be contained. She could hardly think straight as the sleepiness overwhelmed her. I've ridden bikes for years, but nothing compares to this pain - I've hardly sat down for days. Employees can hardly sit, idly waiting for new work to come along. I staggered around in my kitchen for a few minutes holding my gut while I laughed because I could hardly sit on my chair! By the time I got there, the rhythm section were the only ones left and hardly able to see straight. She gets a terrible pain every time she tries to walk, and yet she is very restless, and can hardly stand to sit still. I could hardly stand it, sitting around another hour or so with the adults. Barrie Rutter is in his element as a Sir John whose artificial belly means he can hardly get up or sit down, yet is always ready to caper at a lady. Michael was hardly able to think straight as he started to feel the effects of the pills, his vision foggy, and his mind a total mess. She was so worn out she could hardly see straight, but she couldn't take her eyes from the stars. Now the 15-year-old club-mates can hardly bear to sit and watch the Games at home on television. Like a child with a new toy, his spirit rose with each idea the group generated until he could hardly sit in his chair. Synonyms only with difficulty, barely, scarcely, only with effort, only just, almost not 1.3 No or not (suggesting surprise at or disagreement with a statement) I hardly think so Example sentencesExamples Some bloggers don't write very well, but that hardly qualifies as poetry. I think it's a salutory consequence, hardly insignificant, but it's not Job One. The higher ups never really considered the pressure they'd heaped on her but what I did hardly qualified as heroism. It may be reasonable, but it hardly qualifies as a competent choice, even if it is successful. That hardly qualifies as an irrational act of an immoderate president. Still, at 58 degrees, that was hardly bath water lapping onto the sand near SeaWalk Pavilion. A person who is in the throes of an addiction is hardly qualified to make that decision. But the maxim that you can fall in love at any age could hardly be more true than for James Foster and Barbara Scott. This sort of thing is rampant in the public sector though so hardly qualifies as news. The binding nature of the court's legal opinion is hardly a matter of true concern for Zionists. Now being a Texas resident for the past five years might make me a citizen of the state, but it hardly qualifies me as a true Texan. Even if true, that hardly proves the point that we should continue to turn a blind eye to those who are cheating the system. Nonetheless, despite the seemingly narrow focus, this outline is hardly insignificant. If it's true this was hardly a classic, it was a no holds barred derby with the occasional touch of class. Bomb making and inciting riots hardly qualify as youthful follies. True, he was hardly put under pressure at the back but at least he busied himself around the field and was a particular threat up front. The ‘big fat’ series hardly qualifies as reality, nor does Survivor, for that matter! It looked enormous, and even if you accept the police figure for some obscure reason, 45,000 is hardly an insignificant number. University administrators worry that too many students pursue business degrees, hardly a path of activism. Now, I think we can all agree that one of the closest elections in history can hardly qualify as a blowout. That was, in many ways true, but it hardly justifies colonization. But that's hardly a true picture of what was available in that much-maligned decade. The surly behaviour of the United camp to the foreign media has hardly qualified as a charm offensive on either front. In sharp contrast, across the mass-media landscape, average workers hardly qualify as noble. Writing and ranting that is neither clever nor funny hardly qualifies as banter. The casting of a man in the role of Miss Pink had no apparent intended significance, yet it could hardly be insignificant. While there is nothing objectionable about such sponsorship, it hardly qualifies as community involvement. True, she is hardly a representative working mum - whatever that might be. Many do drink to excess on special occasions, but this hardly qualifies as dangerous binging. But these murderers are hardly qualified to judge what is a ‘hate crime’ and what is not. Kennedy is fully entitled to conduct his crusade to humble the medical profession, but this level of zeal hardly qualifies him for the conduct of a public inquiry. A rushed survey with a very small participation rate hardly qualifies as full consultation. 2archaic Harshly. the rule worked hardly Usage Words like hardly, scarcely, and rarely should not be used with negative constructions. Thus, it is correct to say I can hardly wait but incorrect to say I can't hardly wait. This is because adverbs like hardly are treated as if they were negatives, and it is a grammatical rule of standard English that double negatives are not acceptable. Words like hardly behave as negatives in other respects as well, as for example in combining with terms such as any or at all, which normally occur only where a negative is present (thus, standard usage is I've got hardly any money, but not I've got any money). See also double negative Phrases hardly any 1Almost no. they sold hardly any books 1.1Almost none. hardly any had previous convictions Example sentencesExamples There were hardly any students of science or scientists in their ranks. In 1979, there were hardly any production companies and none of us were on the radar at that point. There is hardly any discussion of how to deal with global warming while generating substantial economic growth at the same time. Boxing, or rather a raw version of it with no gloves and hardly any rules, was part of the Ancient Games programme. There is hardly any inflation and the trade deficit is not as high as could have been expected. At first this sounds truly minimal: slow-moving layers of overlapping sound with hardly any pulse. There was hardly any wind at the start and to add to frustrations, north lake was busy as holidaymakers took advantage of the heatwave. He's in fact been all but invisible of late making hardly any public appearances. There were people like that in my village too, as a child, but hardly any to speak of, and possibly none now. Until a few days ago, there was hardly any news in Danish newspapers and magazines about elections in India. Synonyms little, little or no, minimal, hardly any, limited, negligible, barely sufficient, meagre hardly ever Very rarely. we hardly ever see them Example sentencesExamples Look at tennis, where in any week there are as many as four or five events and the star names hardly ever compete against each other. We can hold our liquor and hardly ever shoot each other unless it's important. The secret ballot has remained the envy of the world and the integrity of election results hardly ever questioned. In fact, they hardly ever come to buy anything from my shop and even if they do I refuse to sell anything to them. Children I know spend more time playing on computers and hardly ever read books. The children are hardly ever picked up by the staff, or played with and many, including Ludmylla, were ill. Even where there are suspects who are charged, cases hardly ever get concluded. That is probably why police reports are always lacking and the officers hardly ever show up at court. Dover Samuels is history, as are a bunch of Labour Maori MPs I have hardly ever heard of. I was surprised, but he has always been fit and is hardly ever injured. Synonyms rarely, infrequently, on rare occasions, hardly ever, scarcely ever, hardly, scarcely, almost never, once in a while, every once in a while, only now and then, not often, only occasionally, sporadically adv..1 phr.
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