1 [notusuallybeforenoun] ~ (to do sth) not wanting to do sth and refusing to do it:
They are unwilling to invest any more money in the project. * She was unable, or unwilling, to give me any further details.
2 [onlybeforenoun] not wanting to do or be sth, but forced to by other people
SYNRELUCTANT:
an unwilling hero * He became the unwilling object of her attention.
OPPWILLING
unwillingly adverb:
The country was drawn unwillingly into the war. * She agreed to their conditions, albeit unwillingly.
unwillingness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for unwilling is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is unwilling a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, unwilling is tagged as adjective.
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