half-hearted

Speech parts

1. half-hearted - Adjective

2. half-hearted - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind.

Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

half hearted

Synonyms

lukewarm tepid halfhearted phlegmatic cold weak neutral cool passive inert detached indifferent faint bored feeble
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Antonyms

dedicated committed dynamic animated excited keen
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Examples

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now. Roone Arledge

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. Abdul Kalam

Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds. They follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt. I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out. Henry van Dyke

Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good. John Piper

President Bush offered a brief and half-hearted apology to the Arab world - but he should apologize to the American people for abandoning the Geneva Conventions. Al Gore

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting. Jane Badler

Close letter words and terms

half-hardy half-hatched half-heard half-heartedly half-heartedly shunning half-heartedness