Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unwilling; disinclined.
- adjective Exhibiting or marked by unwillingness.
- adjective Archaic Offering resistance; opposing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Striving against some opposing force; struggling or resisting.
- Struggling against some requirement, demand, or duty; unwilling; acting with repugnance; loath; as, he was very reluctant to go.
- Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with unwillingness: as, reluctant obedience.
- Not readily brought to any specified behavior or action.
- Synonyms Averse, Reluctant (see
averse ), disinclined, opposed, backward, slow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth.
- adjective Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Opposing ; offeringresistance (to). - adjective Not
wanting to take someaction ;unwilling .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom
- adjective not eager
- adjective disinclined to become involved
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For those not in the business, the term "reluctant reader" tends to be a synonym for "boy."
Charles London: There Are No Boy Books Charles London 2011
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For those not in the business, the term "reluctant reader" tends to be a synonym for "boy."
Charles London: There Are No Boy Books Charles London 2011
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For those not in the business, the term "reluctant reader" tends to be a synonym for "boy."
Charles London: There Are No Boy Books Charles London 2011
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For those not in the business, the term "reluctant reader" tends to be a synonym for "boy."
Charles London: There Are No Boy Books Charles London 2011
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For those not in the business, the term "reluctant reader" tends to be a synonym for "boy."
Charles London: There Are No Boy Books Charles London 2011
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For those not in the business, the term "reluctant reader" tends to be a synonym for "boy."
Charles London: There Are No Boy Books Charles London 2011
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"Originally, I was what they called a reluctant spouse," she said.
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Government data, industry surveys and interviews with employers big and small indicate that many businesses remain reluctant to hire full-time employees because health insurance, which now costs the nation's employers an average of about $3,000 a year for each worker, has become one of the fastest-growing costs for companies.
Are Workers Getting Good Jobs?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Economists say the unemployment rate could climb as high as 10.5 percent next year because employers remain reluctant to hire.
Department of Labor: unemployment rate 10.2%. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Now, research has shown that comics are a great way to turbo-charge literacy in reluctant readers (especially in boys), and comics are suddenly being welcomed into classrooms all over the world.
Boing Boing 2009
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