your heart isn't in it
Definition
› If your heart isn't in it, you do not feel interested or enthusiastic about something: I tried to look interested, but my heart wasn't in it.Lacking interest and enthusiasmUnwilling and reluctantNot showing or feeling emotions
(Definition of your heart isn't in it from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- anaemic adjective
- apathetic adjective
- apathy noun
- blasé adjective
- bothered adjective
- can take it or leave it idiom
- flatly adverb (WITHOUT EMOTION)
- half-hearted adjective
- incurious adjective
- indifference noun
- indifferent adjective (NOT INTERESTED)
- lukewarm adjective (REACTION)
- passionless adjective
- politely adverb
- spiritless adjective
- stolid adjective
- taker noun (ACCEPT)
- tepid adjective (NOT ENTHUSIASTIC)
- unconcerned adjective
- world-weary adjective
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