halfheartedly

With little enthusiasm or interest.

Adverb

  1. 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...
    • “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...

    Synonyms: unenthusiastically lukewarmly

    Antonyms: wholeheartedly enthusiastically

    Coordinate Terms: unconvincedly apathetically indifferently uninterestedly mindlessly thoughtlessly rotely

Origin

Etymology tree English halfhearted Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English halfheartedly From halfhearted + -ly.

Forms

more halfheartedly most halfheartedly half-heartedly

Related

half-assedly