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reluctant
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[rɪˈlʌkt(ə)nt], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- unwilling and hesitant; disinclined
(e.g: she seemed reluctant to answer)
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Origin
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early 17th century (in the sense ‘offering opposition’): from Latin reluctant- ‘struggling against’, from the verb reluctari, from re- (expressing intensive force) + luctari ‘to struggle’
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