quarter-hearted
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "[…]complete with a back flap featuring a few curiously damning remarks of endorsement, as solicited and acquired from those 'name' poets and writers who have no compunction about commenting in public on their fellow-artists' works (customarily reserving their more deeply quarter-hearted commendations for their friends, suspected inferiors, foreigners, fly-by-night oddities, and toilers in another field), […]."
- "The trouble lay, it concluded, in a lack of institutional reforms, or rather, in the breakdown of quarter-hearted reforms, causing the price of rice, in spite of surpluses, to triple in three years."
- "She gave a halfhearted wave. He returned a quarter-hearted wave and went back to whatever he'd been doing before he spotted her."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more quarter-hearted (comparative)
most quarter-hearted (superlative)