I can hardly hear you.
Source: tatoeba (16857)
Hardly
//ˈhɑɹdli//
Synonyms for "hardly" (128 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (64)
nearlynegligiblynot hardlynot oftennot quiteobduratelyonerousonerouslyonlyonly justpainfullypowerfullyrancorouslyrarelyrelentlesslyrigidlyrigorouslyroughlyscantilyscarce
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scarcely everseldomseldom if eversevereseverelyslightlysolidsolidlysorelysparselystifflystormilystrenuouslystronglytant soit peuthe hard waytoilsomelytriflinglyturbulentlyunbendinglyuncommonlyuncompromisinglyuncustomarilyunexpectedlyunfrequentlyunnaturallyunoftenunordinarilyunrelentinglyunusuallyunyieldinglyvery seldomvigorouslyviolentlyweaklywildlywith difficultywith much ado
Conjunction(1 words)
Adverb(3 words)
Related word relations
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Antonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
1 entriesdistinct from
9 entrieshas context
2 entriesrelated to
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
similar
3 entriesTranslations
105 translations across 55 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μόλις adv (barely, only just)
Armenian
2 entries- դժվարությամբ adv (barely, only just)
- հազիվ adv (barely, only just)
Belarusian
1 entries- ледзь adv (barely, only just)
Bulgarian
1 entries- едва́м adv (barely, only just)
Campidanese Sardinian
1 entries- appenas adv (barely, only just)
Catalan
2 entries- a penes adv (barely, only just)
- gaire adv (barely, only just)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- ئاستەم adv (barely, only just)
- جارجار adv (barely, only just)
Chinese
1 entries- 重 adv (harshly)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 重 adv (harshly)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 幾乎不 /几乎不 adv (barely, only just)
- 重 adv (harshly)
Czech
3 entries- přísně adv (harshly)
- sotva adv (barely, only just)
- stěží adv (barely, only just)
Danish
1 entries- knap adv (barely, only just)
Dutch
1 entries- nauwelijks adv (barely, only just)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- ала adv (barely, only just)
Esperanto
2 entries- apenaŭ adv (barely, only just)
- malverŝajne adv (certainly not)
Faroese
1 entries- neyvan adv (barely, only just)
Finnish
3 entries- hädin tuskin adv (barely, only just)
- tuskin adv (barely, only just)
- töin tuskin adv (barely, only just)
French
4 entries- dur adv (harshly)
- durement adv (harshly)
- guère adv (barely, only just)
- à peine adv (barely, only just)
German
3 entries- hart adv (harshly)
- kaum adv (barely, only just)
- rau adv (harshly)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 重 adv (harshly)
Hebrew
1 entries- בקושי adv (barely, only just)
Hindi
1 entries- थोड़े adv (barely, only just)
Hungarian
4 entries- alig adv (barely, only just)
- aligha adv (barely, only just)
- bajosan adv (barely, only just)
- nemigen adv (barely, only just)
Icelandic
4 entries- af hörku adv (harshly)
- ekki meira en svo adv (barely, only just)
- hakalega adv (harshly)
- með erfiði adv (barely, only just)
Ido
1 entries- apene adv (barely, only just)
Irish
1 entries- ní móide adv (barely, only just)
Italian
2 entries- appena adv (barely, only just)
- aspramente adv (harshly)
Khmer
3 entries- គើមៗ adv (barely, only just)
- តើកៗ adv (barely, only just)
- ស្ទើរតែ adv (barely, only just)
Korean
1 entries- 거의 adv (barely, only just)
Latin
2 entries- haud adv (barely, only just)
- vix adv (barely, only just)
Lithuanian
2 entries- vos adv (barely, only just)
- vos vos adv (barely, only just)
Macedonian
2 entries- едвај adv (barely, only just)
- одвај adv (barely, only just)
Mongolian
1 entries- арай adv (barely, only just)
Māori
2 entries- pitoiptoiti adv (barely, only just)
- pitoiti adv (barely, only just)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- hardt adv (harshly)
- knapt adv (barely, only just)
- neppe adv (barely, only just)
Occitan
1 entries- gaire adv (barely, only just)
Ojibwe
1 entries- agaawaa adv (barely, only just)
Old English
1 entries- unēaþe adv (barely, only just)
Old French
1 entries- a paine adv (barely, only just)
Polish
1 entries- ledwo adv (barely, only just)
Portuguese
3 entries- mal adv (barely, only just)
- quase não adv (barely, only just)
- severamente adv (harshly)
Romanian
1 entries- abia adv (barely, only just)
Russian
4 entries- е́ле adv (barely, only just)
- едва́ adv (barely, only just)
- жёстко adv (harshly)
- ре́зко adv (harshly)
Sardinian
3 entries- accalaítzu adv (barely, only just)
- azìgu adv (barely, only just)
- izu adv (barely, only just)
Sassarese
1 entries- aìzu adv (barely, only just)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- air èiginn adv (barely, only just)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- jȅdva adv (barely, only just)
- је̏два adv (barely, only just)
Slovak
2 entries- ledva adv (barely, only just)
- sotva adv (barely, only just)
Spanish
2 entries- a duras penas adv (barely, only just)
- apenas adv (barely, only just)
Swedish
3 entries- knappast adv (barely, only just)
- knappt adv (barely, only just)
- näppeligen adv (barely, only just)
Thai
1 entries- แทบจะไม่ adv (barely, only just)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ле́две adv (barely, only just)
- ледь adv (barely, only just)
Vietnamese
2 entries- hầu như không adv (barely, only just)
- vừa mới adv (barely, only just)
Welsh
2 entries- braidd adv (barely, only just)
- prin adv (barely, only just)
Yiddish
1 entries- קוים adv (barely, only just)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
We can hardly wait for the party on Friday.
Source: tatoeba (18480)
The express train went by so fast that we hardly saw it.
Source: tatoeba (19608)
It is hardly worth discussing.
Source: tatoeba (19993)
Showing 4 of 26 available sentences.
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