quarter-hearted
quarter-hearted adjective: less than half-hearted.
Adjective
quarter-hearted (comparative more quarter-hearted, superlative most quarter-hearted)
- Less than half-hearted.
- […]complete with a back flap featuring a few curiously damning remarks of endorsement, as solicited and acquired from those 'name' poets and writers who have no compunction about commenting in public on their fellow-artists' works (customarily reserving their more deeply quarter-hearted...1955, J. D. Salinger, Rise High the Roof Beams and Seymour, page 148
- The trouble lay, it concluded, in a lack of institutional reforms, or rather, in the breakdown of quarter-hearted reforms, causing the price of rice, in spite of surpluses, to triple in three years.1974, Robert Katz, A Giant in the Earth, page 176
Forms of quarter-hearted
| comparative | more quarter-hearted |
|---|---|
| superlative | most quarter-hearted |
Origin of quarter-hearted
From quarter + hearted, by analogy with halfhearted.
Words formed from quarter-hearted
Questions about quarter-hearted
- What does quarter-hearted mean?
- Quarter-hearted means less than half-hearted.
- What part of speech is quarter-hearted?
- Quarter-hearted is an adjective.
Words near quarter-hearted in the dictionary
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