Usually means: Without desire, against one's will.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word unwillingly:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. unwillingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. unwillingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unwillingly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unwillingly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Unwillingly, unwillingly: Wordnik
  6. unwillingly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. unwillingly: Wiktionary
  8. unwillingly: Dictionary.com
  9. unwillingly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. unwillingly: Rhymezone
  11. unwillingly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. unwillingly: FreeDictionary.org
  13. unwillingly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. unwillingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unwillingly: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unwillingly)

▸ adverb:  In an unwilling or uncooperative manner.

Similar:
unobligingly, loathly, uncooperatively, reluctantly, unaccommodatingly, nonvoluntarily, unwilfully, unobediently, unresistantly, unwillfully, more...

Opposite:
willingly

Types:
willingly, more...

Phrases:
unwillingly occupied, agree unwillingly, concede unwillingly, unwillingly agree, walk unwillingly, more...

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    gray,     dull brown,     murky green,     faded blue,     washed-out yellow, more...



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Similar:
unobligingly, loathly, uncooperatively, reluctantly, unaccommodatingly, nonvoluntarily, unwilfully, unobediently, unresistantly, unwillfully, more...

Opposite:
willingly

Types:
willingly, more...

Phrases:
unwillingly occupied, agree unwillingly, concede unwillingly, unwillingly agree, walk unwillingly, unwillingly estranged from life, walking unwillingly, unwillingly forced to violence, more...

Colors:
    gray,     dull brown,     murky green,     faded blue,     washed-out yellow, more...



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