Lexic.us

Definition of Reluctant

1. Adjective. Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom. "Loath to admit a mistake"

2. Adjective. Disinclined to become involved. "Reluctant to help"

3. Adjective. Not eager. "Fresh from college and reluctant for the moment to marry him"

Definition of Reluctant

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

Definition of Reluctant

1. Adjective. (rare) Opposing; offering resistance (to). ¹

2. Adjective. Not wanting to take some action; unwilling. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reluctant

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reluctant

reloving relubricate relubricated relubricates relubricating relubrication relubrications relucent reluct reluctance

reluctance motor reluctance motors reluctances reluctancies reluctancy reluctant (current term) reluctantly reluctate reluctated reluctates

reluctating reluctation reluctations relucted relucting reluctivity relucts relume relumed relumes

Literary usage of Reluctant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1917)
"Is the authority reluctant ? Testimony which is given reluctantly is especially valuable because ... Even a reluctant authority may have ulterior .motives. ..."

2. The Law of Receiverships: As Established and Applied in the United States by John Wilson Smith (1897)
"Courts reluctant to appoint where legal title involved. Courts are reluctant in appointing a receiver on behalf of a judgment creditor over real estate ..."

3. History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1861)
"... Ho is reluctant to hear of tho Obstacles — and imagines Parma in England —But Alexander's Difficulties are great — He denounces Philip's wild Schemes ..."

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