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English-Thai Dictionary

unwillingness

N ความ ไม่เต็มใจ  reluctance kwam-mai-tem-jai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNWILLINGNESS

n.Loathness; disinclination; reluctance.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

unwillingness

un will ing ness |ˌənˈwiliNGnis | noun the quality or state of being unwilling to do something; reluctance: he deplored the government's unwillingness to provide adequate funds.

 

Oxford Dictionary

unwillingness

un |will ¦ing |ness |ʌnˈwɪlɪŋnɪs | noun [ mass noun ] the quality or state of being unwilling to do something; reluctance: he deplored the Government's unwillingness to provide adequate funds.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

unwillingness

unwillingness adjective their unwillingness to subsidize a school lunch program: disinclination, reluctance, hesitation, diffidence, wavering, vacillation, resistance, foot-dragging, objection, opposition, doubts, second thoughts, scruples, qualms, misgivings.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

unwillingness

unwillingness adjective he deplored the Government's unwillingness to provide adequate funds: disinclination, reluctance, slowness, lack of enthusiasm; hesitation, hesitance, hesitancy, diffidence, coyness, timidity, timorousness, trepidation, backwardness (in coming forward ); aversion to, dislike for, distaste for; demurral, wavering, vacillation, foot-dragging; resistance to, objection to, opposition to; doubts, second thoughts, scruples, qualms, pangs of conscience, misgivings; archaic disrelish; rare indisposedness, nolence, nolition, sweerness.