halfhearted

Adjective Satellite

• feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
  • "a halfhearted effort"

Adj

• Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve.
• Lacking in heart or beneficence; ungenerous; unkind.

Examples

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

Synonyms

half-hearted, lukewarm, tepid, Laodicean, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, cool, dispassionate, dull, enervated, gallionic, halfhearted, heartless, impassive, inconsiderate, indifferent, ineffervescible, insensible, insensitive, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lethargic, listless, lotophagous, mean, mean-spirited, merciless, mopey, nonchalant, nonplussed, petty, phlegmatic, pitiless, pococurante, poor-spirited, ruthless, shiftless, spiritless, supine, surly, thoughtless, tight, torpedinous, torpid, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unfriendly, ungrateful, unimpressible, uninterested, unkind, unkindly, unlively, unmoved, unthinking, untouched, unzealous, world-weary

Related Words

insincere