Reluctant

Adjective

 * 1)  Opposing; offering resistance (to).
 * 2) *1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.108:
 * There, breathless, with his digging nails he clung / Fast to the sand, lest the returning wave, / From whose reluctant roar his life he wrung, / Should suck him back to her insatiate grave [...].
 * 1) *2008, Kern Alexander et al., The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services, p. 222:
 * They are reluctant to the inclusion of a necessity test, especially of a horizontal nature, and emphasize, instead, the importance of procedural disciplines [...].
 * 1) Not wanting to take some action; unwilling, hesitant; uncertain.
 * She was reluctant to lend him the money

Synonyms

 * hesitant

Adverbs for Reluctant
inexplicably; terribly; visibly; evidently; sternly; inflexibly; unyieldingly; palpably; manifestly; strangely; harshly; morosely; undeniably; resentfully; unpleasantly; discourteously; impolitely; sullenly; uncivilly; roughly; unaffectedly; naturally; curiously; superstitiously; timidly; shyly; bashfully; fearfully; timorously; senselessly; sensibly; wisely; thoughtfully; profoundly; secretly; oddly; peculiarly; significantly; particularly ; uncommonly.

Thesaurus
afraid, ambling, antagonistic, apathetic, averse, backward, balking, balky, calculating, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, claudicant, complaining, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, dilatory, disinclined, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, easy, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, fractious, gentle, gradual, grudging, halting, hesitant, hobbled, hobbling, idle, indifferent, indisposed, indolent, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, leery, leisurely, limping, loath, lumbering, moderate, noncooperative, objecting, obstructive, on the barricades, opposed, perfunctory, poking, poky, proof against, protesting, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, relaxed, renitent, repellent, resistant, resisting, resistive, restive, retardant, retardative, sauntering, shuffling, shy, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow to, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, staggering, strolling, tentative, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, uncooperative, uneager, unenthusiastic, unhurried, unsubmissive, unwilling, unyielding, unzealous, up in arms, waddling, wary, withstanding

Etymology
From reluctans:, present participle of reluctare:, reluctari: < re-: + luctari:.

Translations

 * Chinese: 不情愿 (bù qíngyuàn)
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 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Interlingua: reluctante
 * Italian:


 * Latin:
 * Polish: niechętny
 * Romanian: reticent, precaut, prevăzător
 * Russian:
 * Scots:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: motvillig

Related terms

 * reluctance, noun
 * reluctantly, adverb