reluctant
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- Not wanting to take some action; unwilling to do something.
- Contrary; defiant; refractory.
- Tending to match as little text as possible.
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Learned borrowing from Latin reluctāns, present participle of reluctor (“to struggle against, oppose, resist”), from re- (“back”) + luctor (“to struggle”).
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