unwillingness

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Indisposition

Nouns — unwillingness, indisposition, disinclination, aversion, dislike; nolleity, nolition, renitence; reluctance; indocility, obstinacy, noncompliance, refusal; scrupulousness, fastidiousness, delicacy; scruple, qualm, demur, shrinking; hesitancy, irresolution, indecision, uncertainty. See resistance, refusal.

Verbs — be unwilling, grudge, dislike, not have the stomach to; scruple, stickle, stick at, boggle at, shy at, demur, hesitate, hang back, hang fire, lag, recoil, shrink; avoid (see avoidance); oppose, refuse. Slang, duck.

Adjectives — unwilling, not in the mood or vein; loath, disinclined, indisposed, averse, renitent, reluctant, recalcitrant, balky, demurring, objecting, unconsenting, refusing, grudging, dragging, adverse, opposed, laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow (to); scrupulous, squeamish, fastidious; involuntary, forced; repugnant.

Adverbs — unwillingly, grudgingly, with bad grace, with an ill will; against one's will, à contre-cœur, against one's wishes; against the grain, with a heavy heart; nolens volens, willy-nilly; in spite of oneself, malgré soi; perforce, under protest; no. See negation.

Phrases — not for the world. Informal, not on your life.

Quotations — Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school (Shakespeare), There is nothing we receive with so much reluctance as advice (Joseph Addison).

Antonyms, see will, desire.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The state of not being disposed or inclined: averseness, disinclination, indisposition, reluctance. See WILLING.