Reverse Dictionary: RELUCTANT

ADJECTIVES
► ARFISH unwilling, reluctant → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ARGH hesitating, reluctant, unwilling, disinclined → 1813 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► AWVISH reluctant, undecided → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BACKWARD unwilling, reluctant; shy, bashful, diffident; slow → 1889 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► BACKWARD IN COMING FORWARD reluctant, shy to do something; reticent → 1899 Amer. colloq.
► BACKWARD IN GOING FORWARD reluctant, shy → 1899 Amer. dial.
► BALLOCH slow, reluctant → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► FEETH hesitating, reluctant → 1889 Eng. dial.
► GUN-SHY apprehensive; reluctant; fearful → 1884 Amer. sl.
► HAUFISH reluctant, undecided → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ILL-WILLED sulky, ill-tempered; reluctant, averse → 1808 Sc.
► ILL-WILLIE disinclined, reluctant, averse; unfriendly, hostile, morose → 1806 Sc.
► ILL-WILLIED sulky, ill-tempered; reluctant → 1898 Sc.
► ILL-WILLY disinclined, reluctant, averse; unfriendly, hostile, morose → 1806 Sc.
► IMOST unwilling, reluctant, hindering → 1887 Sc.
► LACKISH slow, backward, reluctant to act → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAITH loath, unwilling, reluctant → 1714 Sc.
► LOUGHT loath, averse, disinclined, reluctant, unwilling → a1641 obs.
► MARBEL slow, lazy, reluctant → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► SKYBY shy; reluctant → 1866 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SWEER reluctant, unwilling, disinclined → a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► SWEERT lazy, sluggish, reluctant, inactive, slothful, indolent → 1817 Sc.
► THARF of heavy countenance; lumpish; reluctant, unwilling; hesitating; shy; slow; forbidding, cold, unsociable → 1882 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► THARFISH of heavy countenance; lumpish; reluctant, unwilling, backward, timorous, shy; forbidding → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► THRAW stiff, stubborn; cross; reluctant or unwilling to do anything → 1768 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► THRAWART perverse, stubborn, ill-tempered, peevish; unwilling, reluctant → 1796 Sc.
► THRAWART-LIKE having the appearance of ill-temper or reluctance → 1768 Sc.
► THREFT reluctant, unwilling; perverse → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► THRY stiff, stubborn; cross; reluctant or unwilling to do anything → 1768 Sc.
► UNFAIN not glad or delighted; displeased, sorry, sorrowful; reluctant; having a feeling of dislike; unfond → 1338 arch. exc. Eng. dial.
► UNLOATH reluctant, unwilling → 1607 obs.
► UNWISHFUL reluctant, undesirous → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

ADVERBS
► À CONTRE-COEUR against one’s will; reluctantly → 1803
► AGAINST THE PLUCK reluctantly → 1785 sl.
► BACKARTLY in a backward or reluctant manner → 1885 Eng. dial.
► BACKWARDLY reluctantly, unwillingly, sluggishly → 1580
► HANGEDLY reluctantly, unwillingly; despondently, as though being led to the gallows → 1807 Eng. dial.
► LATELY slowly, tardily, sluggishly; reluctantly, sparingly → c1000 obs.
► TARROWINGLY reluctantly → c1375 Sc.
► THARFLY reluctantly, unwillingly, deliberately, slowly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WANDSOMELY reluctantly, falteringly → a1400 obs.

NOUNS
► ARGHNESS reluctance, unwillingness → 1721 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BACK-DRAWING reluctance, objection, hesitation → 1934 Amer. dial.
► BACKWARDNESS reluctance, disinclination; slowness of conception or action, sluggishness; bashfulness → 1597
► BALK reluctance, objection → 1746 Eng. dial.
► COLD FEET fear of doing something risky or dangerous; a reluctance to proceed → 1896 sl., orig. US
► SULLENNESS slowness, reluctance → 1619 obs.
► SWEERNESS unwillingness, reluctance, disinclination to do something → 1533 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TAWEN hesitation; reluctance → 1905 Sc. obs. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► THARF-COMER one who comes slowly and reluctantly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► ARGH to be timid or fearful; to feel reluctant from timidity, to hesitate → 1725 Sc.
► HANG A LEG to hesitate or hold back; to be reluctant or tardy; to loiter → 1883
► HANG AN ARSE to hesitate or hold back; to be reluctant or tardy; to loiter → 1596
► HANG THE GROIN to hesitate or hold back; to be reluctant or tardy; to loiter  → 1577
► NIGNAY to trifle, to fuss about, to work without result; to hum and haw, to be undecided, to vacillate; to do what is useless; to show reluctance → 1880 Sc.
► TARROW to tarry, to delay, to linger, to hesitate, to show reluctance → c1375 Sc.
► TARROW AT to feel or display reluctance; to show disdain or hesitation, to be pettishly unwilling to accept, to spurn, to refuse → 1768 Sc.
► YEARN to be reluctant to do something → 1597 obs.