Uneager vs Reluctant - What's the difference?
uneager | reluctant |
Not eager.
*2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 300:
*:The sound of running water came from the bathroom. I listened with my hand on the doorknob, uneager to catch Simone Delage in the act of clipping her toenails.
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 adjectives the difference between uneager and reluctant
is that uneager is not eager while reluctant is opposing; offering resistance (to).uneager
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Adjective
(en adjective)reluctant
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(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