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halfhearted

adj

Etymology

From half + hearted.

  1. inherited from herted
  2. compounded as halfhearted — “half + hearted”

Definitions

  1. Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve.

    • Near-synonym: half-assed
    • He made a halfhearted attempt to read the chapter before giving up and dozing off.
    • 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.

  2. Lacking in heart or beneficence

    Lacking in heart or beneficence; ungenerous; unkind.

    • such animals, Half-hearted creatures, as these are, your fox there

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Derived

halfheartedly, halfheartedness

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA