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語源

From half +‎ hearted.

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形容詞

halfhearted (comparative more halfhearted, superlative most halfhearted)

1. Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve.

   Synonyms: lukewarm, tepid; see also Thesaurus:apathetic

   Coordinate terms: wholehearted, fullhearted, hearty, heartful; unhearty, heartless

   Near-synonym: half-assed

   He made a halfhearted attempt to read the chapter before giving up and dozing off.

   • 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian‎:

     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.

2. (obsolete) Lacking in heart or beneficence; ungenerous; unkind.

   Synonyms: heartless, mean-spirited; see also Thesaurus:mean

   • 1632 (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:

     such animals,
     Half-hearted creatures, as these are, your fox there

派生語

• halfheartedly
• halfheartedness

参考

• insincere

Further reading

• “halfhearted”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

派生語