wholeheartedly

See also: whole-heartedly

English

Alternative forms

• whole-heartedly

Etymology

wholehearted +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhəʊlˈhɑː(ɹ)t.ɪd.li/ (UK)

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Adverb

wholeheartedly (comparative more wholeheartedly, superlative most wholeheartedly)

1. In a wholehearted manner; enthusiastically; without reserve.

   He jumped in wholeheartedly and began to learn the language.

   • 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Fans relished the traditional FA Cup fanfare from the Coldstream Guards and the hymn Abide With Me before throwing themselves wholeheartedly into an experience they have been largely deprived of since the first coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.

Translations

in a wholehearted manner; with one's whole heart; enthusiastically

• Arabic: قلبا وقالبا (qalban waqālaban)
• Bulgarian: безрезервно (bg) (bezrezervno)
• Catalan: incondicionalment (ca), completament (ca), amb entusiasme
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 一心 (jat¹ sam¹), 全心 (cyun⁴ sam¹), 一門心思／一门心思 (jat¹ mun⁴ sam¹ si¹) (colloquial)

  Hakka: 全心 (chhiòn-sîm)

  Hokkien: 一心 (zh-min-nan) (it-sim)

  Mandarin: 一心 (zh) (yīxīn), 全心 (zh) (quánxīn), 一門心思／一门心思 (zh) (yīménxīnsi) (colloquial), 殫心／殚心 (zh) (dānxīn) (literary)

  Wu: 一門心思／一门心思 (⁷iq-men-shin-sy)

  Xiang: 一門心／一门心 (i⁶ men² sin¹)

• Dutch: van ganser harte (nl)
• Esperanto: tutkore
• Estonian: täiest hingest, puhtsüdamlikult
• Finnish: täysin rinnoin, täysin sydämin
• French: de tout cœur (fr), à corps perdu (fr), sans réserve (fr)
• Galician: de todo corazón
• Georgian: გულწრფელად (gulc̣rpelad)
• German: von ganzem Herzen, vollen Herzens
• Greek: ολόψυχα (el) (olópsycha)
• Hebrew: בלב שלם (belév šalém)
• Hungarian: szívvel-lélekkel (hu)
• Icelandic: innvirðulega
• Ido: tot-kordiale
• Italian: con tutto il cuore, con entusiasmo, entusiasticamente (it), senza riserve
• Japanese: 切なる (setsu naru), 一心不乱 (ja) (いっしんふらん, isshin furan), 一心 (ja) (いっしん, isshin), ずい (zui), 懇ろ (ja) (ねもころ, nemokoro) (archaic)
• Limburgish: mit gans 't hert
• Old French: abandoneement
• Polish: z całego serca (pl), serio (pl) (informal)
• Portuguese: de todo coração, de coração, calorosamente (pt), sinceramente (pt), incondicionalmente
• Romanian: din toată inima
• Russian: с по́лной отда́чей (s pólnoj otdáčej), всеце́ло (ru) (vsecélo) (literary)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свѐсрдно

  Roman: svèsrdno (sh)

• Spanish: incondicionalmente (es), con entusiasmo, de todo corazón
• Swedish: helhjärtat (sv)
• Telugu: మనస్పూర్తిగా (te) (manaspūrtigā)
• Turkish: seve seve
• Vietnamese: hết lòng (vi)

See also

• halfheartedly