unreluctantly

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adverb

Without reluctance; willingly.

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Meanings

adverbunreluctantly (comparative more unreluctantly, superlative most unreluctantly)

comparative more unreluctantly · superlative most unreluctantly

  1. Without reluctance; willingly.

    But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder; then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Origin

From unreluctant + -ly.

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unreluctantly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreluctantly

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“unreluctantly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreluctantly. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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