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# loth

«loth» in Mova's school dictionary: **unwilling or reluctant to do something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (not compared; old spelling of 'loath')

### meaning for a pupil

Loth means unwilling or reluctant to do something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loth/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a king is loth to give up his daughter

### examples

- She was loth to leave her friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loth/#x1)
- The old man was loth to give her up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loth/#x2)
- I am loth to ask, but I must. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loth/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «loth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.