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Exact Match:

reluctant

not eager; "foreigners stubbornly uneager to accept our ways"; "fresh from college and uneager for the moment to marry him"; "reluctant to help"

unwilling to become involved; "they were usually reluctant to socialize"; "reluctant to help"

Synonyms:

• afraid,
• ambling,
• antagonistic,
• apathetic,
• averse,
• backward,
• balking,
• balky,
• calculating,
• careful,
• cautious,
• chary,
• circumspect,
• claudicant,
• complaining,
• crawling,
• creeping,
• creeping like snail,
• deliberate,
• dilatory,
• disinclined,
• disputatious,
• disputing,
• dissentient,
• dissenting,
• easy,
• faltering,
• flagging,
• foot-dragging,
• fractious,
• gentle,
• gradual,
• grudging,
• halting,
• hesitant,
• hobbled,
• hobbling,
• idle,
• indifferent,
• indisposed,
• indolent,
• laggard,
• languid,
• languorous,
• lazy,
• leery,
• leisurely,
• limping,
• loath,
• lumbering,
• moderate,
• noncooperative,
• objecting,
• obstructive,
• on the barricades,
• opposed,
• perfunctory,
• poking,
• poky,
• proof against,
• protesting,
• rebellious,
• recalcitrant,
• refractory,
• relaxed,
• renitent,
• repellent,
• resistant,
• resisting,
• resistive,
• restive,
• retardant,
• retardative,
• sauntering,
• shuffling,
• shy,
• slack,
• slothful,
• slow,
• slow as death,
• slow as molasses,
• slow as slow,
• slow to,
• slow-crawling,
• slow-foot,
• slow-going,
• slow-legged,
• slow-moving,
• slow-paced,
• slow-poky,
• slow-running,
• slow-sailing,
• slow-stepped,
• sluggish,
• snail-paced,
• snaillike,
• staggering,
• strolling,
• tentative,
• toddling,
• tortoiselike,
• tottering,
• trudging,
• turtlelike,
• uncooperative,
• uneager,
• unenthusiastic,
• unhurried,
• unsubmissive,
• unwilling,
• unyielding,
• unzealous,
• up in arms,
• waddling,
• wary,
• withstanding