See hardly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "I hardly even know her"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "I hardly know her"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "not hardly"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "working hard or hardly working"
}
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"2": "enm",
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"name": "inh"
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"3": "heardlīċe",
"t": "boldly; hardily; without ease; in a way that causes pain; not easily; only by degrees"
},
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},
"expansion": "German härtlich",
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"form": "hardlier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
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"comparative"
]
},
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"superlative"
]
},
{
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}
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{
"text": "They hardly ever watch television.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "It's hardly possible he could lose the election.",
"type": "example"
},
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"ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
"text": "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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"Barely, only just, almost not."
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"Barely",
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[
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"just"
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[
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[
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"(degree) Barely, only just, almost not."
],
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"_dis1": "51 23 0 21 4",
"sense": "barely, almost not or not quite",
"word": "barely"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 23 0 21 4",
"sense": "barely, almost not or not quite",
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{
"_dis1": "51 23 0 21 4",
"sense": "barely, almost not or not quite",
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{
"_dis1": "51 23 0 21 4",
"sense": "barely, almost not or not quite",
"word": "scarcely"
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"alt": "թե",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "հազիվ"
},
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"word": "դժվարությամբ"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "gaire"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "幾乎不"
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"roman": "jīhū bù",
"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "几乎不"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "knap"
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"word": "nauwelijks"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
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"sense": "barely, only just",
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "hädin tuskin"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "guère"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "à peine"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "थोड़े"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
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"word": "nemigen"
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"word": "ئاستەم"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
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"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "barely, only just",
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"sense": "barely, only just",
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"sense": "barely, only just",
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"sense": "barely, only just",
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"word": "neppe"
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"word": "gaire"
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"word": "agaawaa"
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"code": "ang",
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "unēaþe"
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"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "a paine"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "ledwo"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 8 0 4 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "quase não"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 8 0 4 4",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "mal"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
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"word": "е́ле"
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"code": "sc",
"lang": "Campidanese Sardinian",
"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "appenas"
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"word": "air èiginn"
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"word": "sotva"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "ledva"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "apenas"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "a duras penas"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "knappast"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "näppeligen"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "แทบจะไม่"
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"word": "ледь"
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "hầu như không"
},
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "vừa mới"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
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"word": "prin"
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"sense": "barely, only just",
"word": "קוים"
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"text": "I hardly think they'll come in this bad weather!",
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"text": "With this the second of three games in seven days for Stoke, it was hardly surprising to see nine changes from the side that started against Newcastle in the Premier League on Monday.",
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"ref": "2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:",
"text": "Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.",
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"ref": "1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 40:",
"text": "While in Chelsea, Anne Smiley pined, taking very hardly to her unaccustomed role of wife abandoned.",
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"(now rare) With difficulty."
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4d/En-us-hardly.ogg/En-us-hardly.ogg.mp3",
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}
],
"word": "hardly"
}
Download raw JSONL data for hardly meaning in English (23.0kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": tiōng vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
"hardly"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adverb",
"title": "hardly",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2028",
"msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": haziv (tʻe) vs. թե",
"path": [
"hardly"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adverb",
"title": "hardly",
"trace": ""
}
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