Word Meanings - RELUCTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth. Reluctant, but in vain. Milton. Reluctant now I touched the trembling string. Tickell. 2. Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience.

Additional info about word: RELUCTANT

1. Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth. Reluctant, but in vain. Milton. Reluctant now I touched the trembling string. Tickell. 2. Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience. Mitford. Syn. -- Averse; unwilling; loth; disinclined; repugnant; backward; coy. See Averse.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RELUCTANT)

• Averse
• Hostile
• disinclined
• indisposed
• repugnant
• backward
• unwilling
• reluctant
• loath
• Chary
• Careful
• cautions
• calculating
• frugal
• shy
• wary
• sparing
• slow
• saving
• Indisposed
• Disinclined
• sick
• ailing
• Loth
• Reluctant
• Renitent
• Resistent
• elastic
• resilient
• stubborn
• tough
• counteractive

Related words: (words related to RELUCTANT)

• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• RESILIENT
  Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.
• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• AILMENT
  Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.
• SAVE
  Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. Five times received I forty stripes save one. 2 Cor. xi. 24. Syn. -- See Except.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• SAVACIOUN
  Salvation.
• CALCULATED
  1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
• CHARYBDIS
  A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• SAVINGLY
  1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
• AILANTHUS
  See AILANTUS
• AIL
  Indisposition or morbid affection. Pope.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• SPARKER
  A spark arrester.
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• SAILBOAT
  A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• UNVAIL
  See UNVEIL
• PAILLON
  A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.
• HANGNAIL
  A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• IRRESILIENT
  Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
• TENAILLON
  A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• ASSAILMENT
  The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.
• SKYSAIL
  The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• RAIL
  An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.