reluctant
adj.
hesitant, unwilling, disinclined, averse
reluctant
Adjective
1. unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; "a reluctant smile"; "loath to admit a mistake"; "unwilling to face facts"
(synonym) loath, loth
(similar) unwilling
2. unwilling to become involved; "they were usually reluctant to socialize"; "reluctant to help"
(similar) disinclined
3. not eager; "foreigners stubbornly uneager to accept our ways"; "fresh from college and uneager for the moment to marry him"; "reluctant to help"
(similar) uneager
Reluctant
(a.)
Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth.
(a.)
Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
reluctant
adj.
1. unwilling
ناراض, بےمن, بےدل, بےرُچي, برخاستہ خاطر
2. granted with reluctance
ناخوش کا, (متامل)
to be reluctant
کھينچنا, روکنا
reluctant
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.