Synonyms for Be reluctant:

• n.

  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • hang back.

• v.

  •begrudge (verb)
  • envy,
  • stint,
  • covet,
  • resent,
  • pinch.
  •grudge (verb)
  • deny,
  • refuse,
  • complain,
  • mind,
  • hold back.
  •hate (verb)
  • shudder at,
  • can't stand,
  • disfavor,
  • allergic to,
  • contemn,
  • abominate,
  • curse,
  • be disgusted with,
  • despise,
  • disparage,
  • be repelled by,
  • scorn,
  • have enough of,
  • recoil from,
  • object to,
  • have an aversion to,
  • be loath,
  • shun,
  • spurn,
  • bear a grudge against,
  • down on,
  • spit upon,
  • disapprove,
  • disdain,
  • detest,
  • loathe,
  • not care for,
  • feel malice to,
  • deride,
  • deprecate,
  • look down on,
  • abhor,
  • be sorry,
  • have no use for,
  • anathematize,
  • execrate,
  • be sick of,
  • be hostile to,
  • nauseate.
  •hesitate (verb)
  • hang,
  • balk,
  • dillydally,
  • shrink,
  • dither,
  • waffle,
  • alternate,
  • shy away,
  • think twice,
  • weigh,
  • doubt,
  • hedge,
  • fumble,
  • stop,
  • linger,
  • demur,
  • blow hot and cold,
  • be irresolute,
  • oscillate,
  • stutter,
  • delay,
  • falter,
  • fluctuate,
  • flounder,
  • swerve,
  • pussyfoot,
  • straddle,
  • ponder,
  • sit on fence,
  • hover,
  • balance,
  • hem and haw,
  • waver,
  • scruple,
  • seesaw,
  • hold off,
  • debate,
  • defer,
  • equivocate,
  • dally,
  • shift,
  • tergiversate,
  • vacillate,
  • think about,
  • stumble,
  • be unwilling,
  • stammer,
  • pull back,
  • pause.
  •scruple (verb)
  • gag,
  • think twice about,
  • fret,
  • question,
  • stick,
  • worry,
  • boggle,
  • stickle.

• Other synonyms:

  •hate
  • Disfavoring,
  • hated,
  • having no use for,
  • Disfavored,
  • Hates,
  • have aversion to.
  •hesitate
  • thought about,
  • pulling back,
  • dithering,
  • dithered,
  • thinks about,
  • Hesitated,
  • Floundered,
  • pulls back,
  • Stammered,
  • thinking twice,
  • thinking about,
  • pulled back.
  •Other relevant words:
  • flip,
  • argument,
  • tizzy,
  • ostracize,
  • fudge,
  • fuck up,
  • apprehension,
  • bane,
  • incertitude,
  • wither,
  • disadvantage,
  • holdup,
  • hold in,
  • quetch,
  • repercussion,
  • detain,
  • jot,
  • stand firm,
  • scourge,
  • timid,
  • funk,
  • teetertotter,
  • stay put,
  • mill around,
  • disgust,
  • alternating,
  • intellect,
  • eat into,
  • hate,
  • be jealous,
  • tack,
  • equipoise,
  • hesitation,
  • counterweight,
  • baulk,
  • maledict,
  • bear in mind,
  • trip up,
  • resile,
  • pose,
  • proportion,
  • keep one's distance,
  • beshrew,
  • procrastinate,
  • equilibrium,
  • trip-up,
  • head off,
  • trend,
  • veer,
  • closure,
  • sicken,
  • query,
  • wedge,
  • exigency,
  • jib,
  • fiddle,
  • flitter,
  • spoil,
  • careen,
  • condescension,
  • residuum,
  • diffident,
  • creative thinker,
  • swither,
  • reduce,
  • shillyshally,
  • chafe,
  • think of,
  • sense of right and wrong,
  • hindrance,
  • eschew,
  • stall,
  • disfavour,
  • interrogative,
  • creep,
  • gravel,
  • blow,
  • chemise,
  • keep,
  • curse word,
  • cringe,
  • residue,
  • expletive,
  • parry,
  • rebound,
  • loom,
  • torment,
  • crawfish,
  • filch,
  • counterpoise,
  • head-shrinker,
  • nonplus,
  • call into question,
  • catch,
  • crimp,
  • teddy,
  • bumble,
  • footle,
  • squinch,
  • attend,
  • kick back,
  • wobble,
  • bewilder,
  • misgiving,
  • demurral,
  • hedge in,
  • botch up,
  • arrest,
  • turn down,
  • nous,
  • anathemize,
  • excommunicate,
  • dawdle,
  • consider,
  • libra,
  • tarry,
  • argue,
  • change,
  • toy with,
  • plain,
  • vibrate,
  • avert,
  • full point,
  • flabbergast,
  • grope,
  • pitch,
  • bollix,
  • stopover,
  • fence,
  • pick at,
  • teeter,
  • swear,
  • despised,
  • teeter-totter,
  • dodge,
  • invalidate,
  • work shift,
  • mess up,
  • disapproval,
  • backlash,
  • rub,
  • louse up,
  • eat away,
  • reefer,
  • tinge,
  • pother,
  • bulk large,
  • slue,
  • duty period,
  • mash,
  • beat around the bush,
  • gall,
  • depreciate,
  • lurk,
  • recede,
  • marijuana cigarette,
  • hold on,
  • suffocate,
  • slew,
  • scratch,
  • deliberate,
  • hedgerow,
  • block,
  • postponement,
  • trifle,
  • flirt,
  • ricochet,
  • diaphragm,
  • blackball,
  • displacement,
  • hang up,
  • levitate,
  • bobble,
  • range,
  • bar,
  • debar,
  • kick,
  • dissent,
  • matter,
  • interrogate,
  • replacement,
  • remainder,
  • condemnation,
  • equilibrize,
  • thinker,
  • faltering,
  • interruption,
  • muff,
  • twinge,
  • pooh-pooh,
  • banish,
  • patronage,
  • public debate,
  • fracture,
  • fluff,
  • bow,
  • point,
  • dubiousness,
  • rankle,
  • stand back,
  • joystick,
  • speculate,
  • drag,
  • sneak,
  • lift,
  • obviate,
  • submit,
  • count,
  • reflect,
  • conceal,
  • give up,
  • argumentation,
  • duck,
  • contain,
  • tilt,
  • equilibrise,
  • stop consonant,
  • correspondence,
  • hesitate,
  • hold out,
  • sting,
  • sidestep,
  • snarf,
  • ban,
  • purloin,
  • sheer,
  • mouse,
  • abnegate,
  • elude,
  • plosive,
  • retain,
  • strangle,
  • play,
  • retract,
  • shrivel up,
  • transmutation,
  • shift key,
  • flinch,
  • palter,
  • draw,
  • misstep,
  • judgment,
  • flutter,
  • quail,
  • jest,
  • blockade,
  • cleave,
  • execration,
  • muse,
  • intermission,
  • occupy,
  • residual,
  • take a hop,
  • oath,
  • lather,
  • imprecate,
  • budge,
  • despite,
  • pay heed,
  • mess about,
  • interchange,
  • wonder,
  • speck,
  • shimmy,
  • swearword,
  • counterbalance,
  • abstract,
  • trip,
  • deflect,
  • jape,
  • move back,
  • concern,
  • full stop,
  • tweak,
  • equilibrate,
  • unsure,
  • cease,
  • set back,
  • hatred,
  • proportionality,
  • change over,
  • psyche,
  • void,
  • sack,
  • drag one's feet,
  • retreat,
  • ostracise,
  • scant,
  • stand by,
  • swearing,
  • cuss,
  • barricade,
  • reject,
  • contend,
  • withstand,
  • nemesis,
  • backfire,
  • curve,
  • muck up,
  • turn over,
  • symmetricalness,
  • be stingy,
  • prorogue,
  • kibosh,
  • quash,
  • trail,
  • baffle,
  • cohere,
  • break,
  • occlusive,
  • drag one's heels,
  • bowl over,
  • listen,
  • whammy,
  • take turns,
  • dumbfound,
  • keep back,
  • headache,
  • cast out,
  • quip,
  • shirk,
  • substitute,
  • grudge,
  • finish,
  • equaliser,
  • cabbage,
  • coquet,
  • handicap,
  • peg,
  • shelve,
  • librate,
  • lallygag,
  • spliff,
  • mull,
  • slip,
  • stir,
  • stupefy,
  • contract,
  • retch,
  • squeeze,
  • shifting,
  • bond,
  • weave,
  • butterfly,
  • interrogation,
  • flip-flop,
  • joint,
  • doubtfulness,
  • quit,
  • understudy,
  • soupcon,
  • goldbrick,
  • blockage,
  • drop back,
  • postpone,
  • skirt,
  • taking into custody,
  • botch,
  • flirt with,
  • key pattern,
  • score,
  • occlusion,
  • back away,
  • food waste,
  • dilly-dally,
  • keep one's eyes off,
  • inquiry,
  • lollygag,
  • bind,
  • take care,
  • stay,
  • forbear,
  • lounge,
  • stop over,
  • wince,
  • fend off,
  • eat heart out,
  • keep off,
  • think over,
  • stoppage,
  • fend,
  • circumvent,
  • check,
  • spring,
  • freeze off,
  • end,
  • belittle,
  • hold up,
  • geological fault,
  • bollix up,
  • stand,
  • veering,
  • contempt,
  • block off,
  • twitch,
  • interview,
  • sweat,
  • hold over,
  • hitch,
  • advert,
  • flap,
  • hang around,
  • totter,
  • rafter,
  • flow,
  • pull in one's horns,
  • skimp,
  • tweet,
  • loiter,
  • knack,
  • block up,
  • get,
  • stagger,
  • apostatize,
  • disputation,
  • stretch,
  • stew,
  • dubiety,
  • mystify,
  • grate,
  • mite,
  • muzzle,
  • excogitate,
  • retire,
  • retard,
  • hold,
  • crawfish out,
  • joke,
  • foul up,
  • give in,
  • begrudge,
  • heed,
  • oppugn,
  • plosive speech sound,
  • kvetch,
  • mull over,
  • collar,
  • pass up,
  • plosive consonant,
  • meditate,
  • ball up,
  • alternative,
  • niggle,
  • hedging,
  • terminate,
  • jump,
  • transformation,
  • quaver,
  • brain,
  • pilfer,
  • flub,
  • teeterboard,
  • puzzle,
  • perplex,
  • scraps,
  • turn one's stomach,
  • fray,
  • suspension,
  • jinx,
  • brood,
  • stave off,
  • dandle board,
  • trouble,
  • keep one's hands off,
  • layover,
  • give ear,
  • lodge,
  • intermit,
  • churn up,
  • hex,
  • traverse,
  • blaspheme,
  • decline,
  • tilting board,
  • nullify,
  • fall,
  • string up,
  • switch,
  • emergency,
  • comminate,
  • touch,
  • protest,
  • control stick,
  • balance wheel,
  • bent,
  • quiver,
  • vexation,
  • psychiatrist,
  • anathemise,
  • qualm,
  • turn back,
  • impediment,
  • moot,
  • least sandpiper,
  • lay off,
  • bollocks,
  • entertain,
  • draw back,
  • amaze,
  • eat one's heart out,
  • interest,
  • except,
  • break off,
  • vellicate,
  • worn spot,
  • anathematise,
  • damn,
  • screw up,
  • bollocks up,
  • swipe,
  • intercept,
  • fault,
  • nip,
  • put off,
  • chat up,
  • hold fast,
  • ruminate,
  • blunder,
  • accede,
  • pin,
  • motion,
  • time lag,
  • deterrent,
  • head,
  • apostatise,
  • drop behind,
  • mill about,
  • philander,
  • put over,
  • scrimp,
  • idea,
  • restrain,
  • equalizer,
  • heave,
  • loaf,
  • vex,
  • invidia,
  • toy,
  • dislodge,
  • press,
  • halt,
  • defy,
  • bounce,
  • get behind,
  • hook,
  • nobble,
  • chew over,
  • coquette,
  • bungle,
  • demurrer,
  • period,
  • garbage,
  • uncertainty,
  • stick by,
  • enquiry,
  • withdraw,
  • yaw,
  • remit,
  • annul,
  • pull away,
  • lurch,
  • adhere,
  • bedamn,
  • mishandle,
  • interrogative sentence,
  • wait,
  • span,
  • moral sense,
  • reverberate,
  • stick to,
  • scorned,
  • evade,
  • romance,
  • care,
  • erode,
  • back out,
  • symmetry,
  • agitate,
  • hint,
  • laugh,
  • judgement,
  • top,
  • cling,
  • detested,
  • grievance,
  • contemplate,
  • beat,
  • surrogate,
  • cut,
  • rest,
  • bound,
  • prevaricate,
  • poise,
  • ward off,
  • fuss,
  • table,
  • reposition,
  • turn away,
  • conscience,
  • shrivel,
  • discontinue,
  • switching,
  • enviousness,
  • choke,
  • stick around,
  • sound off,
  • revolt,
  • transfer,
  • swerving,
  • slip up,
  • deposit,
  • beware,
  • flummox,
  • flicker.
  •scruple
  • Stickled,
  • scruples,
  • shies,
  • Shying,
  • Stickling,
  • stickles.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • stay away,
  • shrink from,
  • resist,
  • have doubts,
  • shy,
  • be not disposed,
  • be disinclined,
  • be cautious,
  • be loth,
  • be watchful,
  • be wary,
  • dislike,
  • avoid,
  • recoil,
  • have qualms,
  • stick at,
  • be averse,
  • fight shy of.

Antonyms for Be reluctant:

• v.

  • begrudge
    give, be generous.
  • grudge
    forgive, grant, favor, allow, approve, offer, be happy, be content, sanction.
  • hate
    commend, cherish, flatter, praise, love, compliment, like, admire, endorse, adore, laud.
  • hesitate
    expedite, agree, remain, meet, rush, hurry, carry on, face, persevere, resolve, go ahead, attack, persist, do well, continue, hasten, stay, go, advance, go along.
  • scruple
    not care.