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reluctant 音标拼音: [rɪl'ʌktənt] [ril'ʌktənt] a. 勉强的,不情愿的,厌恶的 勉强的,不情愿的,厌恶的 reluctant adj 1: unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; " a reluctant smile"; " loath to admit a mistake" [ synonym: { loath}, { loth}, { reluctant}] 2: disinclined to become involved; " they were usually reluctant to socialize"; " reluctant to help" 3: not eager; " foreigners stubbornly reluctant to accept our ways"; " fresh from college and reluctant for the moment to marry him" Reluctant \ Re* luc" tant\ (- tant), a. [ L. reluctans, - antis, p. pr. of reluctari. See { Reluct}.] 1. Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth. [ 1913 Webster] Reluctant, but in vain. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Reluctant now I touched the trembling string. -- Tickell. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience. -- Mitford. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Averse; unwilling; loth; disinclined; repugnant; backward; coy. See { Averse}. [ 1913 Webster] 116 Moby Thesaurus words for " reluctant": afraid, ambling, antagonistic, apathetic, averse, backward, balking, balky, calculating, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, claudicant, complaining, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, dilatory, disinclined, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, easy, faltering, flagging, foot- dragging, fractious, gentle, gradual, grudging, halting, hesitant, hobbled, hobbling, idle, indifferent, indisposed, indolent, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, leery, leisurely, limping, loath, lumbering, moderate, noncooperative, objecting, obstructive, on the barricades, opposed, perfunctory, poking, poky, proof against, protesting, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, relaxed, renitent, repellent, resistant, resisting, resistive, restive, retardant, retardative, sauntering, shuffling, shy, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow to, slow- crawling, slow- foot, slow- going, slow- legged, slow- moving, slow- paced, slow- poky, slow- running, slow- sailing, slow- stepped, sluggish, snail- paced, snaillike, staggering, strolling, tentative, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, uncooperative, uneager, unenthusiastic, unhurried, unsubmissive, unwilling, unyielding, unzealous, up in arms, waddling, wary, withstanding
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