Roget's Thesaurus

#603. Unwillingness

Nouns

unwillingness etc. adj.; indisposition, indisposedness; disinclination, aversation; nolleity, nolition; renitence, renitency; reluctance; indifference etc. 866; backwardness etc. adj.; slowness etc. 275; want of alacrity, want of readiness; indocility etc. (obstinacy) 606. scrupulousness, scrupulosity; qualms of conscience, twinge of conscience; delicacy, demur, scruple, qualm, shrinking, recoil; hesitation etc. (irresolution) 605; fastidiousness etc. 868. averseness etc. (dislike) 867; dissent etc. 489; refusal etc. 764.

Verbs

be unwilling etc. adj.; nill; dislike etc. 867; grudge, begrudge; not be able to find it in one's heart to, not have the stomach to. demur, stick at, scruple, stickle; hang fire, run rusty; recoil, shrink, swerve; hesitate etc. 605; avoid etc. 623. oppose etc. 708; dissent etc. 489; refuse etc. 764.

Adjectives

unwilling; not in the vein, loth, loath, shy of, disinclined, indisposed, averse, reluctant, not content; adverse etc. (opposed) 708; laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow to; indifferent etc. 866; scrupulous; squeamish etc. (fastidious) 868; repugnant etc. (dislike) 867; restiff, restive; demurring etc. v.; unconsenting etc. (refusing) 764; involuntary etc. 601.

Adverbs

unwillingly etc. adj.; 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 [Lat.]; a contre caeur [Fr.]; malgre soi [Fr.]; in spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself; nolens volens etc. (necessity) 601 [Lat.]; perforce etc. 744; under protest; no etc. 536; not for the world, far be it from me.