Usually means: Lacking enthusiasm, interest, or commitment.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word halfhearted:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. halfhearted: Merriam-Webster
  2. halfhearted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. halfhearted: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. halfhearted: Vocabulary.com
  5. halfhearted: Wordnik
  6. halfhearted: Wiktionary
  7. halfhearted: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. halfhearted: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. halfhearted: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. halfhearted: Dictionary.com
  11. halfhearted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. halfhearted: Rhymezone
  13. halfhearted: FreeDictionary.org
  14. halfhearted: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. halfhearted: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. halfhearted: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halfhearted: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halfhearted: Idioms

(Note: See halfheartedly as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (halfhearted)

▸ adjective:  Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Lacking in heart or beneficence; ungenerous; unkind.

Similar:
lukewarm, unenthusiastic, half-hearted, listless, lightweight, feeble, mailed-in, flaccid, ineffectual, weak, more...

Opposite:
wholehearted, complete, total, utter

Phrases:
opposite of halfhearted, more...



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Similar:
lukewarm, unenthusiastic, half-hearted, listless, lightweight, feeble, mailed-in, flaccid, ineffectual, weak, more...

Opposite:
wholehearted, complete, total, utter

Phrases:
opposite of halfhearted, more...



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