halfhearted
See also: half-hearted
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halfhearted (comparative more halfhearted, superlative most halfhearted)
- Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve.
- Synonym: lukewarm
- He made a half-hearted attempt to read the chapter before giving up and dozing off.
- 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:
- There were chants against the domestic league's president Dumitru Dragomir and also a half-hearted two-man pitch invasion by Universitatea Craiova fans protesting at the expulsion of their club from the league.
- (obsolete) Lacking in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind.
- 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
- such animals,
Half-hearted creatures, as these are, your fox there
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lacking full energy
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- “halfhearted”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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