What is another word for reluctant?
333 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɹɪlˈʌktənt], [ ɹɪlˈʌktənt], [ ɹ_ɪ_l_ˈʌ_k_t_ə_n_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for reluctant:- adverse (adjective)
- afraid (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- averse (adjective)
- backward (adjective)
- balky (adjective)
- chary (adjective)
- diffident (adjective)
- disinclined (adjective)
- dubious (adjective)
- gingerly (adjective)
- hesitant (adjective)
- indisposed (adjective)
- involuntary (adjective)
- irreconcilable (adjective)
- opposing (adjective)
- shy (adjective)
- slow (adjective)
- slow-footed (adjective)
- slow-going (adjective)
- slow-paced (adjective)
- unenthusiastic, unwilling (adjective)
- unwilling (adjective)
- vacillant (adjective)
- vacillatory (adjective)
- disinclined (noun)
- reluctant (noun)
- zealous (noun)
- other synonyms
Synonyms for Reluctant:
adj.
•adverse (adjective) •afraid (adjective)- more uneager,
- un-happy,
- un-eager,
- unhappy,
- un-happiest,
- un happiest,
- most uneager,
- un eager,
- un happier,
- un happy,
- un-happier.
- dis liking,
- dis-liking,
- un-favorable,
- most disliking,
- anti-pathetic,
- more illdisposed,
- ill disposed,
- un favorable,
- more disliking,
- anti pathetic,
- most illdisposed,
- illdisposed,
- more ill disposed,
- more ill-disposed,
- most ill-disposed,
- most ill disposed.
- obstinate,
- in-tractable,
- more negativistic,
- un-predictable,
- in flexible,
- un predictable,
- un-bending,
- un manageable,
- in tractable,
- in-flexible,
- stubborn,
- most negativistic,
- immovable,
- un-manageable,
- un bending.
- Unpoised,
- dis trustful,
- in securest,
- timorous,
- most unassured,
- unassuming,
- selfeffacing,
- more unassured,
- in-securer,
- self conscious,
- more rabbity,
- un-assertive,
- un-sure,
- most rabbity,
- more flinching,
- un assured,
- dis-trustful,
- most unpoised,
- more blenching,
- in secure,
- in-securest,
- most unassertive,
- most blenching,
- more unassertive,
- un-assured,
- un poised,
- un sure,
- with drawn,
- un-obtrusive,
- self effacing,
- un-poised,
- un assuming,
- un assertive,
- un obtrusive,
- in-secure,
- more unpoised,
- most flinching,
- selfconscious,
- with-drawn,
- self-conscious,
- shrinking,
- un-assuming,
- in securer.
- not mood,
- more balking,
- un sympathetic,
- most objecting,
- most balking,
- more objecting,
- dis-inclined,
- more shying,
- pro testing,
- most sticking,
- not the mood,
- not in mood,
- un-sympathetic,
- dis inclined,
- most protesting,
- most shying,
- more sticking,
- more protesting,
- pro-testing.
- un trusty,
- un trustworthy,
- un likely,
- un-likely,
- un trustiest,
- most trustless,
- un clear,
- un-convinced,
- un dependable,
- un trustier,
- touch go,
- un likelier,
- un clearest,
- un-clearest,
- un-dependable,
- un-clear,
- un-reliable,
- un-clearer,
- un decided,
- un reliable,
- un-trustiest,
- in decisive,
- un-trusty,
- un-decided,
- more unconvinced,
- fly by night,
- un-likeliest,
- most unconvinced,
- Mootable,
- dubitable,
- in-decisive,
- more trustless,
- un-trustier,
- un convinced,
- untrustier,
- un-trustworthy,
- iffy,
- far fetched,
- un clearer,
- untrustiest,
- un likeliest,
- un-likelier.
- Half-hearted,
- doubting,
- de laying,
- more faltering,
- most faltering,
- most dawdling,
- more dawdling,
- half hearted,
- de-laying.
- in-disposed,
- un-caring,
- most uninclined,
- un inclined,
- more uninclined,
- in disposed,
- un caring,
- un-inclined.
- more begrudging,
- most unprompted,
- willless,
- re-flexest,
- most grudging,
- more uncalculated,
- most will-less,
- be grudging,
- more willless,
- most will less,
- un thinking,
- un meditated,
- un calculated,
- most reflexive,
- un-premeditated,
- re flexer,
- un witting,
- more will-less,
- un-calculated,
- in-voluntary,
- be-grudging,
- most willless,
- re flexest,
- re-flex,
- re flex,
- more unprompted,
- in voluntary,
- un-meditated,
- un-thinking,
- un conscious,
- un-controlled,
- kneejerk,
- un intentional,
- more reflexive,
- most uncalculated,
- un-witting,
- un prompted,
- most begrudging,
- re-flexer,
- un controlled,
- un-prompted,
- un-conscious,
- un-intended,
- more grudging,
- most unmeditated,
- will less,
- un intended,
- more unmeditated,
- un-intentional,
- more will less.
- most clashing,
- dis-sonant,
- un-appeasable,
- in-congruous,
- in-compatible,
- in compatible,
- dis sonant,
- in consistent,
- un appeasable,
- in-harmonious,
- most intransigent,
- more clashing,
- un-compromising,
- hardline,
- in-consistent,
- in-exorable,
- in harmonious,
- in congruous,
- un compromising.
- recessive,
- introvert,
- most unsocial,
- most introvert,
- un-effusive,
- more uneffusive,
- un-responsive,
- un-social,
- un responsive,
- un social,
- un effusive,
- most uneffusive,
- more introvert,
- more unsocial.
- cautious,
- calculating,
- disheartened,
- recalcitrant,
- discouraged,
- indisposed,
- tardy,
- squeamish,
- circumspect,
- opposed.
n.
•disinclined (noun) •reluctant (noun) •zealous (noun)Other synonyms:
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- grudging.
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- unprepared.
Paraphrases for Reluctant:
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Equivalence
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Independent
Antonyms for Reluctant:
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adj.
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unenthusiastic, unwilling
bold, anxious, heedless, eager, ready, confident, willing, uncareful, indiscreet, rash, incautious, enthusiastic, careless, definite.
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unenthusiastic, unwilling
