halfheartedly

See also: half-heartedly

English

Alternative forms

• half-heartedly

Etymology

From halfhearted +‎ -ly.

Adverb

halfheartedly (comparative more halfheartedly, superlative most halfheartedly)

1. Without enthusiasm or interest.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1901 [1878], Leo Tolstoy, translated by Constance Garnett, Anna Karenina‎^[1]:

     “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.”

Synonyms

• apathetically
• indifferently

Antonyms

• enthusiastically

Translations

in a half-hearted manner

• French: sans enthousiasme, sans y croire
• German: halbherzig (de)
• Hindi: बेमन से (beman se), बेदिली से (bedilī se)
• Italian: tiepidamente
• Polish: na pół gwizdka (pl)
• Swedish: halvhjärtat (sv)
• Turkish: isteksizce (tr), gönülsüzce, istemeden

See also

• wholeheartedly