English Dictionary

hardly

/ˈhɑːdli/

adv

(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.

I can hardly believe my eyes.

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:

, 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:

, 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 […].