1. reluctant - Adjective
2. reluctant - Adjective Satellite
Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth.
Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMost 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