Reluctant vs Repugnant - What's the difference?
reluctant | repugnant | Synonyms |
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.
Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.
(legal) Opposed or in conflict.
Reluctant is a synonym of repugnant.
As adjectives the difference between reluctant and repugnant
is that reluctant is opposing; offering resistance (to) while repugnant is repugnant.As a verb repugnant is
.reluctant
English
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
