THESAURUS
reluctance
antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, capacitive reactance, cautiousness, challenge, circumspection, combative reaction, complaint, counteraction, creeping, cursoriness, defiance, deliberateness, deliberation, demur, disagreement, disinclination, dislike, disobedience, dispute, disrelish, dissent, dissentience, distaste, drawl, electric resistance, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, hesitancy, idleness, impedance, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, indolence, inductive reactance, inertia, inertness, intractableness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, languor, laziness, leisureliness, lentitude, lentor, magnetic
reluctance, mutinousness, negativism, nolition, noncooperation, objection, obstinacy, ohm, ohmage, opposition, passive resistance, perfunctoriness, pokiness, protest, reactance, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, refusal, reluctivity, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resistance, revolt, skin effect, slackness, sloth, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, specific
reluctance, stand, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, surface resistance, tentativeness, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness, volume resistance, withstanding
ROGET THESAURUS
reluctance
Unwillingness
N
unwillingness, indisposition, indisposedness, disinclination, aversation, nolleity, nolition, renitence, renitency,
reluctance, indifference, backwardness, slowness, want of alacrity, want of readiness, indocility, scrupulousness, scrupulosity, qualms of conscience, twinge of conscience, delicacy, demur, scruple, qualm, shrinking, recoil, hesitation, fastidiousness, averseness, dissent, refusal, unwilling, not in the vein, loth, loath, shy of, disinclined, indisposed, averse, reluctant, not content, adverse, laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow to, indifferent, scrupulous, squeamish, repugnant, restiff, restive, demurring, unconsenting, involuntary, unwillingly, 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, invita Minerva, a contre caeur, malgre soi, in spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself, nolens volens, perforce, under protest, no, not for the world, far be it from me.
Dissuasion
N
dissuasion, dehortation, expostulation, remonstrance, deprecation, discouragement, damper, wet blanket, disillusionment, disenchantment, cohibition, curb, check,
reluctance, contraindication, dissuading, dissuasive, dehortatory, expostulatory, monitive, monitory, dissuaded, admonitory, uninduced &c (induce), unpersuadable, averse, repugnant, repressed.
Dislike
N
dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, displacency,
reluctance, backwardness, repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing, averseness, aversation, aversion, abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror, mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror, hatred, detestation, hate, animosity, hydrophobia, canine madness, byssa, xenophobia, sickener, gall and wormwood, shuddering, cold sweat, disliking, averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse, shy of, sick of, out of conceit with, disinclined, heartsick, dogsick, queasy, disliked, uncared for, unpopular, out of favor, repulsive, repugnant, repellant, abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous, loathsome, loathful, offensive, disgusting, disagreeable c, (painful), usque ad nauseam, Int, faugh!, foh!, ugh!, non libet.
