Diclib.com
ChatGPT AI Dictionary

Dictionary Lookup Custom Solutions

Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆

Language:

Translation and analysis of words by ChatGPT artificial intelligence

On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:

how the word is used
frequency of use
it is used more often in oral or written speech
word translation options
usage examples (several phrases with translation)
etymology

What (who) is reluctant - definition

NOVEL BY MOHSIN HAMID

Reluctant fundamentalist; Reluctant Fundamentalist

Reluctant

·adj Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth.

II. Reluctant ·adj Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience.

reluctant

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

If you are reluctant to do something, you are unwilling to do it and hesitate before doing it, or do it slowly and without enthusiasm.

Mr Spero was reluctant to ask for help...

ADJ: usu v-link ADJ to-inf

• reluctantly

We have reluctantly agreed to let him go.

ADV: ADV with v

• reluctance

Ministers have shown extreme reluctance to explain their position to the media.

N-UNCOUNT: oft N to-inf

reluctant

adj. (usu. does not stand alone) reluctant to + inf. (we were reluctant to act)

Wikipedia

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a "metafictional" novel by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid, published in 2007.

The novel uses the technique of a frame story, which takes place during the course of a single evening in an outdoor Lahore cafe, where a bearded Pakistani man called Changez tells a nervous American stranger about his love affair with an American woman, and his eventual abandonment of America. A short story adapted from the novel, called "Focus on the Fundamentals," appeared in the fall 2006 issue of The Paris Review. A film adaptation of the novel by director Mira Nair premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Examples of use of reluctant

1. Some may be reluctant to admit sexual activity, others reluctant to deny it.

2. But they were highly reluctant, too reluctant in fact, to make that sacrifice.

3. "If they were reluctant, they would have been reluctant in swearing in General Salva Kiir," he said of Garangs replacement.

4. Will travel insurance cover reluctant travellers?

5. And even reluctant Republicans praised Obama‘s outreach.