halfhearted
adjEtymology From half + hearted.
1
Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve.
- Near-synonym: half-assed
- He made a halfhearted attempt to read the chapter before giving up and dozing off.
1 more example
- There were chants against the domestic league's president Dumitru Dragomir and also a half-hearted two-man pitch invasion by Universitatea Craiova fans protesting at the expulsion of their club from the league.2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:
2
Obsolete Lacking in heart or beneficence; ungenerous; unkind.
- such animals, Half-hearted creatures, as these are, your fox there1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Derived terms
- halfheartedly, halfheartedness
- Related terms
- insincere