half-heartedly

Adverb

Meaning

without enthusiasm; in a half-hearted manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

passively perfunctorily feebly loathly hesitatingly dimly grudgingly hesitantly watchfully unambitiously incuriously unenergetically drudgingly

Antonyms

actively intensely eagerly passionately sincerely keenly

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Examples

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. Isaac Newton

The Englishman without his tea fights only half-heartedly. José Maria Eça de Queiroz

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly. Elton John

My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly. Jessie J

she tried half-heartedly Source: Internet

As the thief pulls the bike loose, two members of the public half-heartedly holds on to the handlebars to stop them getting away, prompting the youth to shout: “Let go my bike. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

half-hatched half-heard half-hearted half-heartedly shunning half-heartedness half-heat