What does halfheartedly mean?
Halfheartedly means With little enthusiasm or interest..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
With little enthusiasm or interest..
Near-synonyms: unenthusiastically, lukewarmly
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.”
Extreme rhetoric often landed like another genre of Internet content—something to be halfheartedly consumed, laughed at, scrolled past, and then forgotten.
Use halfheartedly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Halfheartedly means With little enthusiasm or interest..
Common synonyms include unenthusiastically, lukewarmly.
Possible antonyms include wholeheartedly, enthusiastically.
Near-synonyms: unenthusiastically, lukewarmly
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