wholeheartedly
Syllables: whole·heart·ed·lyUK/ˌhəʊlˈhɑːtɪdli//ˌhoʊlˈhɑɹtədli/
wholeheartedly adverb: in a wholehearted (“showing enthusiastic and unconditional commitment”) manner; without reserve; enthusiastically, unreservedly.
Adverb
wholeheartedly (comparative more wholeheartedly, superlative most wholeheartedly)
- In a wholehearted (“showing enthusiastic and unconditional commitment”) manner; without reserve; enthusiastically, unreservedly.
- He jumped in wholeheartedly and began to learn the language.
- [T]hough Augustus and Tiberius discouraged the desire to deify them in their lifetime, Caligula had no sooner expressed his designs on godhead than the Alexandrians wholeheartedly fell in with his wishes, and worshipped him.1898, J[oseph] Grafton Milne, “Religious Institutions”, in A History of Egypt under Roman Rule (A History of Egypt; V), London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, paragraph 32, page 149
- Synonyms:
- body and soul
wholeheartedly meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Tagalog
wholeheartedly in Urdu
- فراغ دلی سے, پرجوشی سے
wholeheartedly in Bengali
- সর্বান্তঃকরণে
wholeheartedly in Telugu
- in a wholehearted manner — see also enthusiastically
- మనస్పూర్తిగా manaspūrtigā
wholeheartedly in Tagalog
- in a wholehearted manner — see also enthusiastically
- balikatan
More languagesFewer languages
- wholeheartedly in Arabic
- قَلْبًا وَقَالَبًا qalban waqālaban
- wholeheartedly in Malay
- khusyuk
- wholeheartedly in Indonesian
- dengan sepenuh hati, dengan segenap hati
- wholeheartedly in Vietnamese
- hết lòng, nhất tâm
Examples of wholeheartedly in a sentence
- Thus unreservedly, promptly, and wholeheartedly did the people of New Mexico, through their chosen representatives, throw themselves and all their resources into the Great War.1926 January, Lansing B[artlett] Bloom, “New Mexico in the Great War”, in Lansing B. Bloom, Paul A. F. Walter, editors, The New Mexico...
- [H]e had a natural bias against all change, and he hated wholeheartedly what he regarded as the central doctrine of the French Revolution, […]1932 March, John Buchan, “The Man”, in Sir Walter Scott, London; Toronto, Ont.: Cassell and Company, published May 1932, →OCLC, section II...
- We are wroth with these go-betweens and meddlers—the drifting clouds: these half-and-halfs that have learned neither to bless nor to curse wholeheartedly.1933, Friedrich W[ilhelm] Nietzsche, “Before Sunrise”, in A[lexander] Title, revised by M[ildred] M[ary] Bozman, transl., Thus Spake...
Synonyms of wholeheartedly
Forms of wholeheartedly
| comparative | more wholeheartedly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most wholeheartedly |
| alternative form | whole-heartedly |
Origin of wholeheartedly
From wholehearted + -ly.
Questions about wholeheartedly
- What does wholeheartedly mean?
- Wholeheartedly means in a wholehearted (“showing enthusiastic and unconditional commitment”) manner; without reserve; enthusiastically, unreservedly.
- What is wholeheartedly in Urdu?
- Wholeheartedly in Urdu is فراغ دلی سے, پرجوشی سے. See Wholeheartedly meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use wholeheartedly in a sentence?
- Thus unreservedly, promptly, and wholeheartedly did the people of New Mexico, through their chosen representatives, throw themselves and all their resources into the Great War.
- What part of speech is wholeheartedly?
- Wholeheartedly is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce wholeheartedly?
- Wholeheartedly is pronounced /ˌhəʊlˈhɑːtɪdli/ (UK).
Words near wholeheartedly in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wholeheartedly (page history and authors); wholeheartedly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wholeheartedly (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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