reluctant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Not wanting to do something; unwilling.

   She was reluctant to lend him the money.

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Simplified etymology

Reluctant entered English in the early 17th century from Latin reluctari, “to struggle against.” Its early, stronger sense was “writhing or offering opposition.”

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

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