Definition of reluct

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Reluct (v. i.) To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance.

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Grudge :: Grudge (v. i.) To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant.
Willing :: Willing (v. t.) Received of choice, or without reluctance; submitted to voluntarily; chosen; desired..
Reluctation :: Reluctation (n.) Repugnance; resistance; reluctance.
Loath :: Loath (a.) Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part..
Reluct :: Reluct (v. i.) To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance.
Reluctate :: Reluctate (v. i.) To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose.
Willingly :: Willingly (adv.) In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully.
Willingness :: Willingness (n.) The quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.
Hesitate :: Hesitate (v. t.) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
Backward :: Backward (a.) Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
Loathly :: Loathly (adv.) Unwillingly; reluctantly.
Averse :: Averse (a.) Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant.
Reluctancy :: Reluctancy (n.) The state or quality of being reluctant; repugnance; aversion of mind; unwillingness; -- often followed by an infinitive, or by to and a noun, formerly sometimes by against..
Scunner :: Scunner (v. i.) To have a feeling of loathing or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance..
Involuntary :: Involuntary (a.) Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant; compulsory; as, involuntary submission..
Reluctance :: Reluctance (n.) Alt. of Reluctanc.
Repugnancy :: Repugnancy (n.) The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like..
Scruple :: Scruple (v. i.) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience..
Grudge :: Grudge (v. t.) To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects..
Ready :: Ready (superl.) Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing; free; inclined; disposed.
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