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unreluctantly

unreluctantly adverb: without reluctance; willingly.

Adverb

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

Forms of unreluctantly

comparativemore unreluctantly
superlativemost unreluctantly

Origin of unreluctantly

From unreluctant + -ly.

Questions about unreluctantly

What does unreluctantly mean?
Unreluctantly means without reluctance; willingly.
What part of speech is unreluctantly?
Unreluctantly is an adverb.

Words near unreluctantly in the dictionary

  1. unrelished
  2. unrelishing
  3. unrelocatable
  4. unreluctance
  5. unreluctant
  6. unreluctantly
  7. unremaindered
  8. unremaining
  9. unremanded
  10. unremarkable
  11. unremarkableness

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