unwillingly
8
3.4
- adverb
- /ʌnˈwɪlɪŋli/
:
de mala gana
- The children participated in the talent show unwillingly, as their parents had insisted on it.
- willingly or unwillingly
And most kids get sent there unwillingly against their will.
- And most kids get sent there unwillingly against their will.
- Now, can God do anything unwillingly?
- So we often say that in cases like that we can't do it or we can't not do it, or that we do it unwillingly or against our will or in some respect on free.
Examples
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I come here to return life to this child from whom it is unwillingly taken.
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Therefore, albeit unwillingly, slowly, and painstakingly, I began to dismantle the minority supremacist government.
Academic text (1990) -
And most kids get sent there unwillingly against their will.
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Then he returned, unwillingly, to America before turning around and leaving for good.
Fiction book (1997) -
People come from far and wide to unwillingly participate in it.
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Some of us have to play our role unwillingly.
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Every person had to participate in community groups on some level, even unwillingly.
Academic text (2006) -
In 1935, many emigrants remembered leaving Germany unwillingly in order to escape poverty, insecurity, and a lack of opportunity.
Academic text (2016) -
On January 1, 1991, Rawlings unwillingly announced a program for Ghana's transition to constitutional rule.
Academic text (1992) -
At the trial, do you remember testifying that you were unwillingly made part of a capital murder and robbery on November 1st, 1986, when Walter McMillian saw you at a car wash and asked you to drive his truck because his arm hurt?
Synonyms
80
3.7
In a way that shows you do not want to do something
17
6.1
Showing you do not want to do something
14
3.2
In a slow, unsure way because of doubt
7
6.5
In a way that shows you do something without wanting to and feeling annoyed
1
7.7
To accept something unpleasant without protest
1
5.6
In a way that shows little interest or energy
In a way that shows someone cannot decide clearly
Antonyms
How Willing
67
1.3
119
1.9
14
3.2
8
3.4
17
6.1
22
6.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unwillingly breaks into un- ('not') and willing (from will, meaning 'want' or 'choice'). So unwillingly means doing something 'not wanting' to do it, or doing it without real interest.