half-heartedly

1. 1.

   without enthusiasm; in a half-hearted manner

   “she tried half-heartedly”

Questions about half-heartedly

What does half-heartedly mean?

half-heartedly means "without enthusiasm; in a half-hearted manner".

How many syllables are in half-heartedly?

half-heartedly has 5 syllables and divides as half--he-ar-ted-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is half-heartedly a common word?

half-heartedly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.