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(degree) Barely, only just, almost not. / (now rare) With difficulty. / (manner, archaic) Harshly, severely; in a hard manner. / (manner, obsolete) Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.

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hardly

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈhɑːdli/

Adverb

archaic obsolete

(degree) Barely, only just, almost not. / (now rare) With difficulty. / (manner, archaic) Harshly, severely; in a hard manner. / (manner, obsolete) Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.

Japanese Meaning

ほとんど～ない、かろうじて / 困難を伴って、難航して / 厳しく、激しく / しっかりと、力強く

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I could hardly hear her whisper over the noise of the train.

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電車の騒音の中で彼女のささやきがほとんど聞こえなかった。

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Sense（1）

(degree) Barely, only just, almost not.

How lonely they looked as they lay there, and how ill assorted! That little heap had been for two thousand years the wisest, loveliest, proudest creature - I can hardly call her woman - in the whole universe.

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Sense（2）

(now rare) With difficulty.

, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.234:

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 […].

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Sense（3）

(manner, archaic) 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.

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