halfheartedly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
With little enthusiasm or interest.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: unenthusiastically, lukewarmly"
- "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."
- "“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.”"
- "Extreme rhetoric often landed like another genre of Internet content—something to be halfheartedly consumed, laughed at, scrolled past, and then forgotten."
Etymology
Etymology tree English halfhearted Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English halfheartedly From halfhearted + -ly.