reluctant
adjEtymology
Learned borrowing from Latin reluctāns, present participle of reluctor (“to struggle against, oppose, resist”), from re- (“back”) + luctor (“to struggle”).
- learned borrowing from reluctāns
Definitions
Not wanting to take some action
Not wanting to take some action; unwilling to do something.
- She was reluctant to lend him the money
- Surprisingly, our new dog is a reluctant ball-retriever.
- They are reluctant to the inclusion of a necessity test, especially of a horizontal nature, and emphasize, instead, the importance of procedural disciplines [...].
Contrary
Contrary; defiant; refractory.
- Whence we must infer, that the least stir of tumult or rebellion against the Prince is reluctant to all the Ordinances of Heaven, is an abortive product of Hell against the pure dictates of nature […]
- If pride be allowed to cause you to envy or wound the characters of such as differ from, or outshine you, or to make you reluctant to Christian reproof from your inferiors, how fearful is your guilt and danger!
- There, breathless, with his digging nails he clung / Fast to the sand, lest the returning wave, / From whose reluctant roar his life he wrung, / Should suck him back to her insatiate grave [...].
Tending to match as little text as possible.
The neighborhood
- neighborreluctance
- neighborreluctantly
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at reluctant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at reluctant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at reluctant
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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