English-Thai Dictionary

reluctance

N ความ ไม่เต็มใจ  hesitation disinclination qualm kwam-mai-tem-jai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RELUCTANCE, RELUCTANCY

n.[literally a straining or striving against. ] Unwillingness; great opposition of mind; repugnance; with to or against; as, to undertake a war with reluctance. He has a great reluctance to this measure.
Bear witness, heav'n with what reluctancy her helpless innocence I doom to die.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

RELUCTANCE; RELUCTANCY

Re *luc "tance, Re *luc "tan *cy, n. Etym: [See Reluctant. ]

 

Defn: The state or quality of being reluctant; repugnance; aversion of mind; unwillingness; -- often followed by an infinitive, or by to and a noun, formerly sometimes by against. "Tempering the severity of his looks with a reluctance to the action. " Dryden. He had some reluctance to obey the summons. Sir W. Scott. Bear witness, Heaven, with what reluctancy Her helpless innocence I doom to die. Dryden.

 

Syn. See Dislike.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

reluctance

re luc tance |riˈləktəns rəˈləktəns | ▶noun unwillingness or disinclination to do something: she sensed his reluctance to continue. • Physics the property of a magnetic circuit of opposing the passage of magnetic flux lines, equal to the ratio of the magnetomotive force to the magnetic flux.

 

Oxford Dictionary

reluctance

re |luc ¦tance |rɪˈlʌkt (ə )ns | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 unwillingness or disinclination to do something: she sensed his reluctance to continue. 2 Physics the property of a magnetic circuit of opposing the passage of magnetic flux lines, equal to the ratio of the magnetomotive force to the magnetic flux.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

reluctance

reluctance noun he said he was glad to go, but she sensed his reluctance: unwillingness, disinclination; hesitation, wavering, vacillation; doubts, second thoughts, misgivings.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

reluctance

reluctance noun she sensed his reluctance to continue: unwillingness, disinclination, lack of enthusiasm; hesitation, hesitance, hesitancy, diffidence, timidity, timorousness, trepidation, backwardness (in coming forward ); demurral, wavering, vacillation, foot-dragging, resistance; doubts, second thoughts, scruples, qualms, pangs of conscience, misgivings; archaic disrelish. ANTONYMS willingness, eagerness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

reluctance

re luc tance -tan cy /rɪlʌ́kt (ə )ns //-si /名詞 U 1 ｟かたく ｠〖時にa ～〗 «…するのに » 気が進まないこと «to do » ▸ show ((an ) extreme ) reluctance to go 行くのを極端にいやがる ▸ go with [without ] reluctance いやいや [いやがらずに, 喜んで ]行く .2 〘電 物理 〙磁気抵抗, リラクタンス .