disinclined
/dɪsɪnˈklʌɪnd
/adjective [predicative, with infinitive]
Unwilling; reluctant: the rural community was disinclined to abandon the old ways...
- Audiences today are not only disinclined to listen to new music, they're reluctant to listen to anything unfamiliar.
- The majority party is a closely-knit organization nationwide and is less popular among youths who are generally disinclined to go to the poll.
- For the rest, the hand emerges abruptly from the kiosk without greeting or acknowledgement, and one is then disinclined to be pleasant in return.
Synonyms
reluctant, unwilling, unenthusiastic, unprepared, indisposed, ill-disposed, not disposed, not in the mood, slow, hesitant, nervous, afraid;
loath, averse, antipathetic, resistant, opposed, recalcitrant
- goodishness
- goodish-sized
- good King Harry
- Good King Henry
- good lady
- good-length
- good liber
- good life
- goodlike
- goodliness
- good liver
- good-living
- good-looker
- good-looking
- good-lookingness
- good looks
- goodlordship
- good luck to ——
- goodly
- goodly-sized
- goodman
- Goodman, Benny
- good manners
- good-meaning
- good-minded