wholeheartedly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
27
Words With Friends
26
Letters
14
Pronunciation
/ˌhəʊlˈhɑːtɪdli/
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/ˌhəʊlˈhɑːtɪdli/ · /ˌhoʊlˈhɑɹtədli/ · [-ɾəd-]

Definition of wholeheartedly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. 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.”
    “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. The Sunshine State fears no storm.”
    “[H]e had a natural bias against all change, and he hated wholeheartedly what he regarded as the central doctrine of the French Revolution, […]”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From wholehearted + -ly.

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