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English
Etymology
From reluctant + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈlʌktəntli/
- Hyphenation: re‧luc‧tant‧ly
Adverb
reluctantly (comparative more reluctantly, superlative most reluctantly)
- In a reluctant or hesitant manner.
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy , “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T 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
- 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, 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
- Plautdietsch: onnood
- Polish: niechętnie (pl)
- Portuguese: relutantemente
- Russian: неохо́тно (ru) (neoxótno), с неохо́той (s neoxótoj)
- Spanish: a regañadientes (es), de mala gana (es), con renuencia, renuentemente, reaciamente, reluctantemente, reticentemente
- Ukrainian: неохоче (neoxoče)
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