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unreluctantly

unreluctantly

7.4
Willingly and without hesitation
  • adverb
  • /ˌʌn.rɪˈlʌk.tənt.li/
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  • Despite her initial hesitation, she unreluctantly volunteered to help with the project.

Examples

  • After much discussion, she unreluctantly accepted the team's decision.

  • Millie, perforce and unreluctantly, took her children out of bed at three o'clock in the morning.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • He unreluctantly agreed to join the committee, realizing it was necessary.

Synonyms

unabashedly
vsunreluctantly
11 7.5

Without shame or embarrassment

focuses on lack of hesitation and unwillingness rather than lack of embarrassment
unquestioningly
vsunreluctantly
4 6.5

They do or accept something without any doubt

emphasizes freedom from hesitation and unwillingness, not obedience
unreservedly
vsunreluctantly
3 7.1

Completely and without holding back

focuses on lack of hesitation and lack of unwillingness
unhesitatingly
vsunreluctantly
1 5.7

Without any pause or doubt

shows absence of hesitation and lack of unwillingness
unhesitantly
vsunreluctantly
5.8

Without pause or doubt

also implies absence of reluctance or unwillingness
unqualifiedly
vsunreluctantly
  • Formal
7.8

Completely and without any doubt

is about not hesitating to act or accept rather than general completeness

Antonyms

80 3.7

In a way that shows you do not want to do something

How Willing

eagerly
67 1.3
willingly
119 1.9
unreluctantly
7.4
hesitantly
14 3.2
reluctantly
80 3.7
grudgingly
17 6.1

Surface Forms

unreluctantly positive

Morphology

unreluctantly = unreluctant (transparent) = un + reluctant + ly

The adverb is formed by adding '-ly' to 'unreluctant' (itself interpretable as 'un-' + 'reluctant'); the negation plus adverbial suffix yields a directly inferable meaning.

Etymology

Unreluctantly breaks into un- 'not', reluctant 'unwilling or holding back', and -ly which makes it an adverb, so it means 'not unwillingly' or 'without hesitation'.