wholeheartedly

CEFRB2

/ˌhəʊlˈhɑːtɪdli/

adverb

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01
adverb
With complete and sincere support or feeling.
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adverb
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In a wholehearted (“showing enthusiastic and unconditional commitment”) manner; without reserve; enthusiastically, unreservedly.

Examples

I wholeheartedly admire your understanding of Chinese.
I wholeheartedly agree with everything Tom said.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 2
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 1

Also pronounced

[-ɾəd-]
/ˌhoʊlˈhɑɹtədli/

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Some say that ignorance is bliss, and I wholeheartedly agree.
He jumped in wholeheartedly and began to learn the language.
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.

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[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
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.
1926 January, Lansing B[artlett] Bloom, “New Mexico in the Great War”, in Lansing B. Bloom, Paul A. F. Walter, editors, The New Mexico Historical Review, volume I, number 1, Santa...
[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, page 361
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 Zarathustra, London: Heron Books; by arrangement with J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Sons, published [1977?], →OCLC, 3rd part, page 148
Fans relished the traditional FA Cup fanfare from the Coldstream Guards and the hymn Abide With Me before throwing themselves wholeheartedly into an experience they have been largely deprived of since the first coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.
2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0 – 1 Leicester: Foxes Lift FA Cup for First Time after Youri Tielemans Stunner”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2025

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Origin

adverb

From wholehearted + -ly.

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adverb

Every year, she blank supported the fundraising event for the local elementary school.