English Dictionary

hardly

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈhɑːdli/

副詞

古語 廃用

(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.

日本語の意味

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

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

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。

意味（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.

意味（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 […].

意味（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.

意味（4）

(manner, obsolete) Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.

, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.148: Let him hardly be possest with an honest curiositie to search out the nature and causes of all things […].

hardlier （ comparative ）

more hardly （ comparative ）

hardliest （ superlative ）

most hardly （ superlative ）