RELUCTANCY Synonyms

• lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

• a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient

• look down on with disdain

• reject with contempt

• that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike

• a certain degree of unwillingness

• an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

• a feeling of aversion or antipathy

• have or feel a dislike or distaste for

• the state of being unsure of something

• uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something

• the state of being unsure of something

• intentionally vague or ambiguous

• a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something

• a certain degree of unwillingness

• indecision in speech or action

• a certain degree of unwillingness

• the act of pausing uncertainly

• the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters

• an uneasy psychological state

• a sensitive or highly strung temperament

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected

• the relation between opposed entities

• the act of hostile groups opposing each other

• a contestant that you are matched against

• a body of people united in opposing something

• a direction opposite to another

• an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)

• the act of refusing

• a message refusing to accept something that is offered

• the act of rejecting something

• the state of being rejected

• (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

• the speech act of rejecting

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

• a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

• the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

• the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

• group action in opposition to those in power

• feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

• physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)

• embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you

• the trait of seeming ill at ease

• inability to rest or relax or be still

• the trait of being unwilling

• indecision in speech or action

• changing location by moving back and forth

• A lack of relish: distaste

• Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.

• To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.

• To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.