half-heard

Adjective

Meaning

Imperfectly or partly heard to the end.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. Gene Wolfe

Nought but a lovely sighing of the wind Along the reedy stream; a half-heard strain, Full of sweet desolation-balmy pain. John Keats

Close letter words and terms

half-hard half-hardy half-hatched half-hearted half-heartedly half-heartedly shunning