Hyphenation of hardly

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word hardly? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

hard-ly

Definitions of hardly:

1.
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
2.
Almost not
He hardly ever goes fishing He was hardly more than sixteen years old They scarcely ever used the emergency generator

Synonyms of hardly:

adv barely, just, scarcely, scarce
adv scarcely

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