reluctant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Not wanting to do something; unwilling.

   She was reluctant to lend him the money.

Common collocations

• reluctant smile Adjective + noun

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

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