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. - 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. - SPARSELY
In a scattered or sparse manner. - 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. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - HANGNAIL
A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway. - IRRESILIENT
Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic. - 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. - 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. - 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.