Usually means: Not open to doing something.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word unwilling:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. unwilling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unwilling: Merriam-Webster
  3. unwilling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unwilling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unwilling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unwilling, unwilling: Wordnik
  7. unwilling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unwilling: Wiktionary
  9. unwilling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. unwilling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. unwilling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. unwilling: Dictionary.com
  13. unwilling: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. unwilling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Unwilling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. unwilling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. unwilling: Rhymezone
  18. Unwilling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. unwilling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. unwilling: FreeDictionary.org
  21. unwilling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. unwilling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. unwilling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unwilling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See unwillingly as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Not willing; reluctant

Similar:
unintentional, involuntary, unvoluntary, nonvoluntary, grudging, reluctant, loath, loth, unreluctant, irreluctant, more...

Opposite:
eager, willing, enthusiastic, cooperative, agreeable

Types:
unwillingness, unwillingnesses, unwillingly, more...

Phrases:
unwilling to change, unwilling to compromise, unwilling to, unwilling to adapt, unwilling to give up, more...

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Similar:
unintentional, involuntary, unvoluntary, nonvoluntary, grudging, reluctant, loath, loth, unreluctant, irreluctant, more...

Opposite:
eager, willing, enthusiastic, cooperative, agreeable

Types:
unwillingness, unwillingnesses, unwillingly, more...

Phrases:
unwilling to change, unwilling to compromise, unwilling to, unwilling to adapt, unwilling to give up, unwilling to learn, unwilling to accept, unwilling and hesitant, be unwilling, unwilling to share, more...

Colors:
    gray,     dull brown,     murky green,     dark blue,     charcoal, more...



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