reluctant
A2CEFR level
10/100Rarity: common
NeutralRegister
General adjective
Unwilling and hesitant to do something.
Managers were reluctant to commit to the plan without firm figures.
Medicine adjective
Unwilling or hesitant to do something.
If a patient seems reluctant to undress, offer a chaperone and give them privacy first.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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