reluctant
/ɹɪˈlʌktənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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 [...]."
- "That’s probably because you appear as someone who rarely puts himself forward, and is reluctant to teach the wisdom he has."
- "My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return."
- "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 […]"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more reluctant (comparative)
most reluctant (superlative)