wholeheartedly

UK/ˌhəʊlˈhɑːtɪdli/US/ˌhoʊlˈhɑɹtədli/

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Wholeheartedly means with complete and undivided commitment. Agree wholeheartedly, wholeheartedly recommend, support it wholeheartedly.

It belongs to agreement and endorsement above all, and its job is to remove any suspicion of reservation. Said of an effort rather than an opinion, it means nothing was held back.

Definitions of wholeheartedly

1adverbwholeheartedlyWith complete and undivided commitment.C1
“I wholeheartedly support your decision to go back to university.”

wholeheartedly is a manner.

Where it comes from

From wholehearted plus -ly, from whole plus heart.

From wholehearted + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

wholeheartedly in the wild

The reaction was immediate and polarized: most of the academic establishment and older poets vilified them, while much of the Turkish population embraced them wholeheartedly.
Poetry of Turkey
Like Joseph Mede, Vitringa believed wholeheartedly that the Millennium was yet to come, but did not expect any immediate changes.
Campegius Vitringa
A good employer, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to promoting the self-reliance of the working man.
Richard Andrews (industrialist)
Anthony Bye has described Steptoe's style as "wholeheartedly in the tradition of Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Howells, Britten and Tippett...regenerated with thoroughly contemporary means of expression".
Roger Steptoe
With these two pamphlets, Hamilton "embraced wholeheartedly the 'radical' American side" of the growing conflict with the Kingdom of Great Britain.
A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress

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