English search results for: Reluctant

#1

adjective

Definitions:

  1. reluctant
  2. unwilling
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#2

verb

  • conjugation: irregular

Definitions:

  1. be disinclined/reluctant/adverse to
  2. hate (PERF form, PRES force), dislike
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#3

verb

  • conjugation: irregular

Definitions:

  1. (usu. PREFDEF)
  2. be disinclined/reluctant/adverse to
  3. dislike
  4. hate
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: William Whitaker’s personal guess
#4

verb

  • conjugation: 4th conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. (usu. PREFDEF)
  2. be disinclined/reluctant/adverse to
  3. dislike
  4. hate
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: Roy J. Deferrari, “Dictionary of St”. Thomas Aquinas, 1960 (DeF)
#5

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. draw back, be reluctant
  2. reconsider
  3. undertake anew
  4. withdraw
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#6

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. (= retracto)
  2. draw back, be reluctant
  3. reconsider
  4. undertake anew
  5. withdraw
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)