hardly

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. zarf Barely, only just, almost not.

   “They hardly ever watch television.”

2. zarf Certainly not; not at all.

   “I hardly think they'll come in this bad weather!”

3. zarf With difficulty.

   “And what gentle flame soever doth warme the heart of young virgins, yet are they hardly drawne to leave and forgoe their mothers, to betake them to their husbands […].”

4. zarf Harshly, severely; in a hard manner.

   “I was a fool when I married him; and I am so far an incurable fool on that subject, that, for the sake of what I once believed him to be, I wouldn’t have even this shadow of my idle fancy hardly dealt with.”

5. zarf Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.

   “Let him hardly be possest with an honest curiositie to search out the nature and causes of all things […].”

6. ünlem Not really.

   “I think the Beatles are a really overrated band. ― Hardly!”