Usually means: Hesitant to act or proceed.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word Reluctant:

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

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)
  2. reluctant: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reluctant: Idioms

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

(Note: See reluctantly as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reluctant)

▸ adjective:  Not wanting to take some action; unwilling to do something.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Contrary; defiant; refractory.
▸ adjective:  (regular expressions) Tending to match as little text as possible.

Similar:
loath, disinclined, unwilling, uneager, loth, hesitant, tempt, reticent, eager, compel, more...

Opposite:
eager, willing, enthusiastic, keen, ready

Types:
apathetic, indifferent, unenthusiastic, unwilling, more...

Phrases:
reluctant dragon, reluctant dragons, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf, The Most Reluctant Convert, more...

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Similar:
loath, disinclined, unwilling, uneager, loth, hesitant, tempt, reticent, eager, compel, more...

Opposite:
eager, willing, enthusiastic, keen, ready

Types:
apathetic, indifferent, unenthusiastic, unwilling, more...

Phrases:
reluctant dragon, reluctant dragons, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf, The Most Reluctant Convert, Reluctant hero, The Reluctant Astronaut, be reluctant, more...

Colors:
    slate gray,     olive,     taupe,     mauve,     dusty rose, more...



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