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Definition: HALF-HEARTED |
HALF-HEARTEDAdjective1. Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm. 2. Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind. |
Date "HALF-HEARTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indifference | Adjective: indifferent, cold, frigid, lukewarm; cool, cool as a cucumber; unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante, easygoing, devil-may-care, careless, listless, lackadaisical; half-hearted; unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous, unsolicitous, unattracted. |
Insensibility | Apathetic; leuco-, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific; sleepy; (inactive); languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken. |
Irresolution | Adjective: irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted; undecided, unresolved, undetermined; shilly-shally; fidgety, tremulous; hesitating; Verb: off one's balance; at a loss; (uncertain). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HALF-HEARTED |
| English words defined with "HALF-HEARTED": half-heartedly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HALF-HEARTED": Abdomen. (references) |
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Children | Antigua and Barbuda | Several alleged offenders reportedly were allowed to leave the country permanently, while prosecution generally appeared to be sporadic and half-hearted. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HALF-HEARTED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.41% of the time. "HALF-HEARTED" is used about 169 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.41% | 168 | 24,050 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 169 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "HALF-HEARTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | nesmìlý pokus (half-hearted attempt). (various references) | |
Finnish | penseä (lukewarm), innoton (uninterested). (various references) | |
Greek | με μισή καρδιά (half hearted), απρόθυμος (reluctant, reluctant to, unwilling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lagymatag (faint, floppy, half hearted, laodicean, tepid), kishitű (pusillanimous), bátortalan (diffident, dispirited, faint, faint-hearted, fearsome, half hearted, low-spirited, poor spirited, pusillanimous, shy, timid, timorous, unmanly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 散漫 (desultory, diffuse, distracted, loose, vague). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なまは"か (superficial), きのない (dispirited, indifferent), さ"ま" (desultory, diffuse, distracted, loose, vague). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alf-heartedhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hesitante (deliberate, diffident, double-minded, doubting, dubious, faltering, fumbling, halting, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, limp, perplexed, reluctant, undecided, unresolved, vacillating, wavering, wobbly), vago (empty, faraway, fuzzy, general, hazy, indecisive, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, jumbled up, lax, loose, nebulous, neutral, remote, spare, transcendental, vacant, vague), irresoluto (double-minded, hesitant, indecisive, infirm, irresolute, shilly-shally, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved, unsettled, unsolved, unsteady, up in the air, vacillating, wavering, weak-kneed), indeciso (blear, double-minded, doubtful, drawn, feckless, fitful, halting, indecisive, indeterminate, irresolute, lacklustre, pendant, pendent, pending, shilly-shally, suspended, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unsolved, unsteady, up in the air, vacillating, vague, wavering). (various references) | |
Russian | нерешительный (double minded, double-minded, half hearted, halfhearted, hesitating, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, shilly shally, spiritless, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, vacillating). (various references) | |
Spanish | sin entusiasmo (half hearted). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม่เต็มใจ (loath, loth). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thiếu can đảm (weak-spirited), miễn cưỡng không hăng hái, không thật tâm không nhiệt tình, không tha thiết (unsolicitous). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: halfhearted. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-f-h-h-l-r-t" | |
-3 letters: deflater, faltered, fathered, flathead, haltered, lathered, reflated. | |
-4 letters: aerated, afeared, alerted, altered, dealate, deflate, draftee, earthed, fathead, feather, federal, haltere, hardhat, hearted, heather, hetaera, laterad, leather, ratafee, reflate, related, terefah, treadle, trehala. | |
-5 letters: adhere, aerate, aether, afeard, afreet, alated, althea, dafter, daleth, dartle, deafer, dealer, dearth, defeat, deflea, defter, delate, derate, elated, elater. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-f-h-h-l-r-t" | |
+2 letters: halfheartedly. | |
+4 letters: halfheartedness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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