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# reluctantly

«reluctantly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unwillingly and slowly, not wanting to do something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (reluctantly)

### meaning for a pupil

Unwillingly and slowly, not wanting to do something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reluctantly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a character does a task or goes away slowly because they do not really want to: «reluctantly bade him farewell»

### examples

- He reluctantly put down his book and went to bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reluctantly/#x1)
- She reluctantly agreed to share her sweets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reluctantly/#x2)
- The dog came reluctantly out of the bath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reluctantly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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