halfhearted.
Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve.
Meaning & usage
Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve.
He made a halfhearted attempt to read the chapter before giving up and dozing off.
Lacking in heart or beneficence; ungenerous; unkind.
Where this word comes from
From half + hearted.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.