Qualm vs Reluctant - What's the difference?
qualm | reluctant |
Mortality; plague; pestilence.
A calamity or disaster.
A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
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A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now chiefly in negative constructions.)
Opposing; offering resistance (to).
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.108:
* 2008 , Kern Alexander et al., The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services , p. 222:
Not wanting to take some action; unwilling.
As a noun qualm
is smoke.As an adjective reluctant is
opposing; offering resistance (to).qualm
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Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Noun
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Synonyms
* compunction * misgiving * scrupleDerived terms
* qualmish * qualmishly * qualmishness * qualmyreluctant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- 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 [...].
- They are reluctant to the inclusion of a necessity test, especially of a horizontal nature, and emphasize, instead, the importance of procedural disciplines [...].
- She was reluctant to lend him the money