Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Unwillingness

Nouns
  • unwillingness etc. adj.
  • indisposition, indisposedness
  • disinclination, aversation
  • nolleity, nolition
  • renitence, renitency
  • reluctance
  • indifference etc. Indifference
  • backwardness etc. adj.
  • slowness etc. Slowness
  • want of alacrity, want of readiness
  • indocility etc. (obstinacy) Obstinacy. scrupulousness, scrupulosity
  • qualms of conscience, twinge of conscience
  • delicacy, demur, scruple, qualm, shrinking, recoil
  • hesitation etc. (irresolution) Irresolution
  • fastidiousness etc. Fastidiousness. averseness etc. (dislike) Dislike
  • dissent etc. Dissent
  • refusal etc. Refusal.
Verbs
Adjectives
  • unwilling
  • not in the vein, loth, loath, shy of, disinclined, indisposed, averse, reluctant, not content
  • adverse etc. (opposed) Opposition
  • laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow to
  • indifferent etc. Indifference
  • scrupulous
  • squeamish etc. (fastidious) Fastidiousness
  • repugnant etc. (dislike) Dislike
  • restiff, restive
  • demurring etc. v.
  • unconsenting etc. (refusing) Refusal
  • involuntary etc. Necessity.
Adverbs
  • unwillingly etc. adj.
  • grudgingly, with a heavy heart
  • with a bad, with an ill grace
  • against one's wishes, against one's will, against the grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against one's grain
  • in spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself
  • perforce etc. Compulsion
  • under protest
  • no etc. Negation
  • not for the world, far be it from me.