Halfheartedly

Quick meaning: Halfheartedly is an adverb meaning With little enthusiasm or interest.

Meaning

With little enthusiasm or interest.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: unenthusiastically, lukewarmly

Extreme rhetoric often landed like another genre of Internet content—something to be halfheartedly consumed, laughed at, scrolled past, and then forgotten.

This appeal seemed to produce some effect, for two of the fellows began to look here and there among the lumber, but half-heartedly, I thought, and with half an eye to their own danger all the time, while the rest stood irresolute on the road.

“Oh, but I feel, and particularly just now—it’s your fault,” he said, pressing her hand—“that all that doesn’t count. I do it in a way halfheartedly. If I could care for all that as I care for you!... Instead of that, I do it in these days like a task that is set me.”

Word Forms

• half-heartedly

Synonyms for halfheartedly

Depending on context, synonyms include unenthusiastically, lukewarmly.

Antonyms for halfheartedly

Common opposites include wholeheartedly, enthusiastically.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include passionlessly, unpassionately, unexcitedly, uneagerly, listlessly, unenjoyingly.

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