Bearly vs Hardly - What's the difference?
bearly | hardly |
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears; ursine.
* 1930 , Hearst's international combined with Cosmopolitan: Volume 89:
* 1955 , Agnes L. McCarthy, James Kenner Agnew, Prose and poetry for appreciation :
* 2010 , Clydal Vania, On the Flight to Nowhere :
(manner, obsolete) Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.148:
(manner, archaic) Harshly, severely.
With difficulty.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.234:
* 1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 40:
(degree) Barely, only just, almost not.
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As an adjective bearly
is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears; ursine.As an adverb hardly is
firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.As an interjection hardly is
not really.bearly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- He was going to be a bearly' bear. With a ' bearly mate.
- Past two years old Keg was now, a big and very bearly bear, and with the first tocsin of fall in the air he'd wandered off toward Sugar-loaf, answering the call of his kind.
- All acting like nothing even happened at all. (Then, a half hour later) Boom! BOOOM!! (There's a poundin down at the door) As Jeanie goes ta answer it, as im in the kitchen getting cereal. As another Big bearly Man Comes barging in.
Anagrams
* * *hardly
English
Adverb
(en-adv)- Let him hardly be possest with an honest curiositie to search out the nature and causes of all things.
- And what gentle flame soever doth warme the heart of young virgins, yet are they hardly drawne to leave and forgoe their mothers, to betake them to their husbands.
- While in Chelsea, Anne Smiley pined, taking very hardly to her unaccustomed role of wife abandoned.
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Usage notes
In the sense "barely", it is grammatically a negative word. It therefore collocates with ever rather than never. * Compare example sentence with I almost never watch televisionSynonyms
* barely, just, only just, scarcelyInterjection
(en interjection)- I think the Beatles are a really overrated band. &
- x2015; Hardly !