hardly की परिभाषा

शब्द आवृत्ति

hardly

(hɑːʳdli )

1. क्रिया विशेषण [ADVERB before verb]

You use hardly to modify a statement when you want to emphasize that it is only a small amount or detail which makes it true, and that therefore it is best to consider the opposite statement as being true.

[emphasis]

I hardly know you.

Nick, on the sofa, hardly slept.

He was given hardly 24 hours to pack his bags.

Their two faces were hardly more than eighteen inches apart.

समानार्थी शब्द:barely, only just, scarcely, just hardly के अधिक समानार्थी

hardly ever

3. क्रिया विशेषण [ADVERB noun]

You use hardly before a negative statement in order to emphasize that something is usually true or usually happens.

[emphasis]

Hardly a day goes by without a visit from someone.

4. क्रिया विशेषण

When you say you can hardly do something, you are emphasizing that it is very difficult for you to do it.

[emphasis]

I can hardly believe it's been over eight years since you used to go camping at Cedar Creek.

My garden was covered with so many butterflies that I could hardly see the flowers.

समानार्थी शब्द:only just, just, only, barely hardly के अधिक समानार्थी

5. क्रिया विशेषण [ADVERB before verb]

If you say hardly had one thing happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second.

He had hardly collected the papers on his desk when the door burst open.

Hardly had he returned to London than an anonymous well-wisher called to say he was about to be raided by Customs & Excise.

6. क्रिया विशेषण [ADVERB before verb]

You use hardly to mean 'not' when you want to suggest that you are expecting your listener or reader to agree with your comment.

We have not seen the letter, so we can hardly comment on it.

It's hardly surprising his ideas didn't catch on.

The growth rate for 1980-89 was 2.2%. Hardly the stuff of economic miracles.

समानार्थी शब्द:not at all, not, no way, by no means hardly के अधिक समानार्थी

7. संकुचन

You use 'hardly' to mean 'no', especially when you want to express surprise or annoyance at a statement that you disagree with.

[spoken]

'They all thought you were marvellous!'—'Well, hardly.'

'We could almost have seen it,'—'Hardly, darling–in the dark and from a distance of a hundred feet?'

Video: pronunciation of 'hardly'

शब्द आवृत्ति

hardly in American

(ˈhɑrdli ; härdˈlē)

क्रिया विशेषण

1. Rare

with effort or difficulty

severely; harshly

only just; barely; scarcely

often used ironically or politely to mean “not quite,” or “not at all”

hardly the person to ask

probably not; not likely

hardly के शब्द मूल

ME hardliche < OE heardlice

शब्द आवृत्ति

hardly in British

(ˈhɑːdlɪ )

क्रिया विशेषण

scarcely; barely

we hardly knew the family

just; only just

he could hardly hold the cup

3. often ironic

almost or probably not or not at all

he will hardly incriminate himself

with difficulty or effort

5. rare

harshly or cruelly

▶ USAGE Since hardly, scarcely, and barely already have negative force, it is redundant to use another negative in the same clause: he had hardly had (not he hadn't hardly had) time to think; there was scarcely any (not scarcely no) bread left

hardly युक्त उदाहरण वाक्य

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