different between reluctant vs disincline

English

Etymology

From Latin reluct?ns, present participle of reluctor (“to struggle against, oppose, resist”), from re- (“back”) + luctor (“to struggle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l?kt?nt/

Adjective

reluctant (comparative more reluctant, superlative most reluctant)

1. (now rare) 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

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• reluctance
• reluctantly

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tralucent

English

Alternative forms

• disencline (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

dis- +? incline

Verb

disincline (third-person singular simple present disinclines, present participle disinclining, simple past and past participle disinclined)

1. (transitive) To make reluctant; to lessen the inclination of.