reluctantとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈlʌktənt/

形容詞

reluctant (comparative more reluctant, superlative most reluctant)

1. (now まれに) Opposing; offering resistance (to).
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.108:

     There, breathless, with his digging nails he clung / Fast to the sand, lest the returning wave, / From whose reluctant roar his life he wrung, / Should suck him back to her insatiate grave [...].

   • 2008, Kern Alexander et al., The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services, p. 222:

     They are reluctant to the inclusion of a necessity test, especially of a horizontal nature, and emphasize, instead, the importance of procedural disciplines [...].

2. Not wanting to take some action; unwilling.

   She was reluctant to lend him the money

3. (regular expressions) Tending to match as little text as possible.

   Antonym: greedy

同意語

• (offering resistance to): refractory
• (not wanting to take some action): unwilling, disinclined

関連する語

• reluctance
• reluctantly

Further reading

• reluctant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• reluctant in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• reluctant at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• tralucent