reluctant

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom
  2. adjective disinclined to become involved
  3. adjective not eager

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin reluctāns, present participle of reluctor (“to struggle against, oppose, resist”), from re- (“back”) + luctor (“to struggle”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

loath, loth

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