RELUCTANT meaning: Hesitant to act or proceed

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word reluctant:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

reluctant: Merriam-Webster.com
reluctant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
reluctant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
reluctant: Collins English Dictionary
reluctant: Vocabulary.com
Reluctant, reluctant: Wordnik
reluctant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
reluctant: Wiktionary
reluctant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
reluctant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
reluctant: Infoplease Dictionary
Reluctant, reluctant: Dictionary.com
reluctant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Reluctant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
reluctant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
reluctant: Rhymezone
reluctant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
reluctant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
reluctant: Free Dictionary
reluctant: Mnemonic Dictionary
reluctant: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
reluctant: Dictionary/thesaurus
reluctant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)
reluctant: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

reluctant: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

reluctant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Not wanting to take some action; unwilling to do something.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Contrary; defiant; refractory.
▸ adjective:  (regular expressions) Tending to match as little text as possible.

Similar:

loath, disinclined, unwilling, uneager, loth, hesitant, tempt, reticent, eager, compel, more...

Opposite:

eager, willing, enthusiastic, keen, ready

Types:

apathetic, indifferent, unenthusiastic, unwilling, more...

Phrases:

reluctant dragon, reluctant dragons, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf, The Most Reluctant Convert, more...

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