reluctant

Speech parts

1. reluctant - Adjective

2. reluctant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth.

Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

loth unwilling disinclined averse loath opposed resistant backward cautious wary hesitating unenthusiastic chary hesitant guarded
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Antonyms

fain based game given certain free
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Related terms

reluctantly reluctance

Phrases with the word

be reluctant be reluctant to accept be reluctant to take be reluctant to come forward be reluctant to do something be reluctant to

Anagrams

tralucent

Examples

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. John Thomas Sladek

Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise. Anthony Eden

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing. Ernest Gellner

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing. George Bernard Shaw

We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave. Marianne Moore

Close letter words and terms

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