6 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
adverb only a very short time before; ; ; ; ; - W.B.Yeats
adverb almost not
originFrom Middle English hardely, hardliche, from Old English heardlīċe (“boldly; hardily; without ease; in a way that causes pain; not easily; only by degrees”), equivalent to hard + -ly. Compare Dutch hardelijk, German härtlich.
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