reluctant

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• /ɹɪˈlʌktənt/
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• CMU ARPABET: R IH0 L AH1 K T AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: R IY0 L AH1 K T AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Latin reluctāns (whence -ant), present participle of reluctor (“to struggle against, oppose, resist”), from re- (“back”) + luctor (“to struggle”) (whence re-.

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: неахво́тны (njeaxvótny) — not wanting to take some action
• Bulgarian: неохо́тен (neohóten) — not wanting to take some action
• Chinese Mandarin: 不情願 /不情愿 (bù qíngyuàn) — not wanting to take some action
• Czech: neochotný — not wanting to take some action
• Czech: zdráhající se — not wanting to take some action
• Dutch: aarzelend — not wanting to take some action
• Dutch: schoorvoetend — not wanting to take some action
• Esperanto: malvolonta — not wanting to take some action
• Finnish: haluton — not wanting to take some action
• Finnish: vastahakoinen — not wanting to take some action
• French: réticent — not wanting to take some action
• French: rétif — not wanting to take some action
• French: récalcitrant — not wanting to take some action
• French: réfractaire — not wanting to take some action
• German: zögernd — not wanting to take some action
• German: widerwillig — not wanting to take some action
• German: widerstrebend — not wanting to take some action
• Hungarian: kelletlen — not wanting to take some action
• Hungarian: vonakodó — not wanting to take some action
• Icelandic: hlédrægur — not wanting to take some action
• Indonesian: enggan — not wanting to take some action
• Interlingua: reluctante — not wanting to take some action
• Irish: drogallach — not wanting to take some action
• Old Irish: lesc — not wanting to take some action
• Italian: riluttante — not wanting to take some action
• Japanese: 嫌がる (iyagaru) — not wanting to take some action
• Japanese: 嫌な (iya na) — not wanting to take some action
• Khmer: រអាដៃ (rɔ’aa day) — not wanting to take some action
• Khmer: អល់អែក (ɑl-aek) — not wanting to take some action
• Korean: 싫어하다 (sireohada) — not wanting to take some action
• Latin: invītus — not wanting to take some action
• Manx: neuarryltagh — not wanting to take some action
• Manx: neuwooiagh — not wanting to take some action
• Māori: whakawhēuaua — not wanting to take some action
• Māori: manauhea — not wanting to take some action
• Māori: whakakumu — not wanting to take some action
• Māori: horokukū — not wanting to take some action
• Māori: whakauaua — not wanting to take some action
• Māori: korongata — not wanting to take some action
• Māori: whakatohetohe — not wanting to take some action
• Māori: manawapā — not wanting to take some action
• Māori: kōroiroi — not wanting to take some action
• Mongolian: дургүй (durgüj) — not wanting to take some action
• Norwegian Bokmål: motvillig — not wanting to take some action
• Norwegian Nynorsk: motvillig — not wanting to take some action
• Norwegian Nynorsk: motviljug — not wanting to take some action
• Persian: بیمیل (bi-meyl) — not wanting to take some action
• Plautdietsch: looj — not wanting to take some action
• Polish: niechętny — not wanting to take some action
• Portuguese: relutante — not wanting to take some action
• Romanian: reticent — not wanting to take some action
• Russian: неохо́тный (neoxótnyj) — not wanting to take some action
• Russian: нежела́ющий (neželájuščij) — not wanting to take some action
• Scots: sweer — not wanting to take some action
• Scots: sweirt — not wanting to take some action
• Scots: laith — not wanting to take some action
• Scottish Gaelic: aindeònach — not wanting to take some action
• Scottish Gaelic: leisg — not wanting to take some action
• Slovak: neochotný — not wanting to take some action
• Spanish: renuente — not wanting to take some action
• Spanish: reacio — not wanting to take some action
• Spanish: reluctante — not wanting to take some action
• Spanish: reticente — not wanting to take some action
• Spanish: renitente — not wanting to take some action
• Spanish: rezongón — not wanting to take some action
• Spanish: repelón — not wanting to take some action
• Spanish: rezongador — not wanting to take some action
• Spanish: rezonglón — not wanting to take some action
• Swedish: återhållsam — not wanting to take some action
• Swedish: motvillig — not wanting to take some action
• Turkish: isteksiz — not wanting to take some action
• Turkish: gönülsüz — not wanting to take some action
• Turkish: hevessiz — not wanting to take some action
• Ukrainian: неохо́чий (neoxóčyj) — not wanting to take some action
• Vietnamese: miễn cưỡng — not wanting to take some action