What are some opposite words for half-hearted?
Antonyms for half-heartedhalf-heart·ed
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term half-hearted.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
half-hearted
Faint, with the general sense of lacking strength or effectiveness, covers a wide range of meaning, signifying overcome with physical weakness or exhaustion, or lacking in purpose, courage, or energy, as said of persons; or lacking definiteness or distinctness of color or sound, as said of written characters, voices, or musical notes. A person may be faint when physically wearied, or when overcome with fear; he may be a faint adherent because naturally feeble or purposeless, or because half-hearted in the cause; he may be a faltering supporter because naturally irresolute or because faint-hearted and timid in view of perils that threaten, a listless worker, through want of mental energy and purpose. Written characters may be faint or dim, either because originally written with poor ink, or because they have become faded by time and exposure.
Antonyms:
bright, brilliant, clear, conspicuous, daring, energetic, fresh, hearty, resolute, strong, sturdy, vigorousSynonyms:
dim, exhausted, faded, faint, faint-hearted, faltering, fatigued, feeble, ill-defined, indistinct, irresolute, languid, listless, purposeless, timid, weak, wearied, worn, worn down, worn outPreposition:
Faint with hunger; faint in color.
Princeton's WordNet
halfhearted, half-hearted, tepid, lukewarmadjective
feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
"a halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the candidate"
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
half-heartedadjective
Synonyms:
indifferent, lukewarm, perfunctory
How to use half-hearted in a sentence?
There is nothing half-hearted about anything I do.
Every try you do and every effort you make in order to achieve something, is worthwhile, only if you take 100% responsibility of it. Half-hearted efforts never fetch reasonable results.
Companies are turning cautious about base pay hikes as the new virus outbreak will exacerbate declines in profits, as the virus outbreak deepens, labour unions are also losing momentum towards base pay hikes, and both manufacturers and non-manufacturers become half-hearted about wage hikes.
As long as you’re taking advice from others, you are not integrated, total - every move will be out of compulsion, only a half-hearted attempt; but the moment you act from within, you move into a totally different dimension, you enter a new space of a self-propelled & motivated no-mind state.
They're half-hearted moves in Asia ... nothing that smacks of conviction really, there are some questions about what exactly triggered this turnaround (on Wall Street). It wasn't as if the sun came poking out and it's all blue skies.
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