hardly

hardly has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• adv.. In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.
• adv.. Unwillingly; grudgingly.
• adv.. Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly.
• adv.. Severely; harshly; roughly.
• adv.. Confidently; hardily.
• adv.. Certainly; surely; indeed.
• adv.. only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
• adv.. almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"