Čo znamená reluctant v angličtine a aká je definícia reluctant?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť reluctant výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

reluctant Význam & definícia

0 not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it:
- [ + to infinitive ] I was having such a good time I was reluctant to leave.
- Many parents feel reluctant to talk openly with their children.
- She persuaded her reluctant husband to take a trip to Florida with her.
1 not wanting to do something and therefore slow to do it:
- [ + to infinitive ] She had trouble sleeping but was reluctant to take sleeping pills.

The United Nations was reluctant to get its forces embroiled in civil war.
I'm a bit reluctant to get involved.
The government was reluctant to sanction intervention in the crisis.
The government is understandably reluctant to do anything which might spoil the harmonious relations between the country's ethnic groups.
A mother was coaxing her reluctant child into the water.
The risk is that clinicians increasingly will be reluctant to do quite ordinary procedures to help patients because of existing guidelines.
At this critical juncture government was still reluctant to get involved but private initiative stepped in and took the lead.
Most readers interested in one volume will also want to read the other, but will be reluctant to pay £190 for the whole collection.