reluctantly

Adverb

Meaning

In a reluctant manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

forced slowly carefully reluctant gently weakly cautiously involuntarily delicately indifferently warily dubiously gingerly perfunctorily wearily
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Antonyms

fully greatly readily actively freely openly
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Phrases with the word

accept reluctantly

Examples

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. Terence

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass. Lewis Mumford

More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason. Georges Bernanos

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. Pythagoras

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. Bill Cosby

He was staring straight ahead, still breathing hard. "I have something I want to give you.” "I gathered that.” At that he jerked his gaze back to hers and almost reluctantly grinned. "Not that. Cassandra Clare

Close letter words and terms

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