[rɪˈlʌkt(ə)nt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- unwilling and hesitant; disinclined
(e.g: she seemed reluctant to answer)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘offering opposition’): from Latin reluctant- ‘struggling against’, from the verb reluctari, from re- (expressing intensive force) + luctari ‘to struggle’