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

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. half-hearted: Merriam-Webster
  2. half-hearted, half-hearted: Collins English Dictionary
  3. half-hearted: Vocabulary.com
  4. Half-hearted, half-hearted: Wordnik
  5. half-hearted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. half-hearted: Wiktionary
  7. Half-hearted, half-hearted: Dictionary.com
  8. half-hearted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Half-hearted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. half-hearted: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. half-hearted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. half-hearted: FreeDictionary.org
  13. half-hearted: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. half-hearted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half-hearted: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of halfhearted [Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve.]

Similar:
fullhearted, weak-hearted, hollowhearted, lowhearted, half-dead, dead-hearted, shallowhearted, whole-hearted, halfwitted, halfful, more...

Opposite:
wholehearted, complete, total, utter

Types:
apathetic, indifferent, uninterested, unenthusiastic, lackadaisical, more...



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Similar:
fullhearted, weak-hearted, hollowhearted, lowhearted, half-dead, dead-hearted, shallowhearted, whole-hearted, halfwitted, halfful, more...

Opposite:
wholehearted, complete, total, utter

Types:
apathetic, indifferent, uninterested, unenthusiastic, lackadaisical, more...



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