reluctantly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English reluctant

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English reluctantly

From reluctant + -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈlʌktəntli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: re‧luc‧tant‧ly

Adverb

reluctantly (comparative more reluctantly, superlative most reluctantly)

1. In a reluctant or hesitant manner.
   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.

Translations

in a reluctant manner — see also unwillingly

• Azerbaijani: könülsüz, həvəssiz
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勉強 / 勉强 (zh) (miǎnqiǎng)

• Czech: váhavě
• Dutch: met tegenzin
• Finnish: vastahakoisesti (fi)
• French: à contrecœur (fr)
• German: ungern (de)
• Greek: διστακτικά (el) (distaktiká)
• Hindi: अनिच्‍छापूर्वक (anic‍chāpūrvak), हिचकते हुए (hicakte hue), झिझकते हुए (jhijhakte hue), अनिच्छा से (anicchā se)
• Hungarian: kelletlenül (hu), vonakodva (hu), ódzkodva, húzódozva
• Italian: svogliatamente (it), di malavoglia (it), malvolentieri (it), senza alcun interesse, con riluttanza
• Japanese: しぶしぶ (ja) (shibushibu), 否々乍ら (いやいやながら, iyaiya-nagara)
• Korean: 마지못해 (majimothae)
• Navajo: tʼáá tiʼída
• Norwegian: uviljug
• Plautdietsch: onnood
• Polish: niechętnie (pl)
• Portuguese: relutantemente
• Russian: неохо́тно (ru) (neoxótno), с неохо́той (s neoxótoj)
• Spanish: con renuencia, renuentemente, reaciamente, reluctantemente, reticentemente
• Ukrainian: неохоче (neoxoče)