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📖 Определения и значения для слова hardly

📒 almost no; almost not; almost none

  • There's hardly any tea left.
  • Hardly anyone has bothered to reply.
  • She hardly ever calls me (= almost never).

📒 used especially after ‘can’ or ‘could’ and before the main verb, to emphasize that it is difficult to do something

  • I can hardly keep my eyes open (= I'm almost falling asleep).
  • I could hardly believe it when I read the letter.

📒 used to suggest that something is unlikely or unreasonable or that somebody is silly for saying or doing something

  • He is hardly likely to admit he was wrong.
  • It's hardly surprising she was fired; she never did any work.
  • It's hardly the time to discuss it now.

📒 used to say that something has just begun, happened, etc.

  • We can't stop for coffee now, we've hardly started.
  • We had hardly sat down to supper when the phone rang.
  • (formal) Hardly had she spoken before she regretted it bitterly.
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