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HESITANT |
Unwilling |
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LOATH |
Unwilling |
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AVERSE |
Unwilling |
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DISINCLINED |
Unwilling |
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RELUCTANT |
Unwilling |
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HIDEBOUND |
Unwilling to change one's behaviour |
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BACKWARD |
Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. |
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MERCIFUL |
Unwilling to give pain; compassionate. |
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COY |
To make difficulty; to be unwilling. |
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TENDER |
Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. |
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NOLLEITY |
The state of being unwilling; nolition. |
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NILL |
To be unwilling; to refuse to act. |
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EARLESS |
Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear. |
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CAGIEST |
Most unwilling to disclose information about non-U CIA guest |
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UNWILLING |
Not willing; loath; disinclined; reluctant; as, an
unwilling servant. |
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RESTIVE |
Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward;
stubborn; drawing back. |
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MEALY-MOUTHED |
Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly
delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. |
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GRUDGE |
To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to
murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant. |
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DISINCLINE |
To incline away the affections of; to excite a
slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. |
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DEAF |
Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive;
regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation;
-- with to; as, deaf to reason. |
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BLIND |
Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of
intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as,
authors are blind to their own defects. |
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HATE |
To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a
substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate
that anything should be wasted. |
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APOSIOPESIS |
A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off
suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as,
"I declare to you tha... |
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EXTORT |
To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force,
menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or
ingenuity; to wrench... |