Reluctant vs Bored - What's the difference?
reluctant | bored |
Opposing; offering resistance (to).
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.108:
* 2008 , Kern Alexander et al., The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services , p. 222:
Not wanting to take some action; unwilling.
(bore)
suffering from boredom
uninterested, without attention
perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)
As adjectives the difference between reluctant and bored
is that reluctant is opposing; offering resistance (to) while bored is suffering from boredom.As a verb bored is
(bore).reluctant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There, breathless, with his digging nails he clung / Fast to the sand, lest the returning wave, / From whose reluctant roar his life he wrung, / Should suck him back to her insatiate grave [...].
- They are reluctant to the inclusion of a necessity test, especially of a horizontal nature, and emphasize, instead, the importance of procedural disciplines [...].
- She was reluctant to lend him the money
Synonyms
* unwilling, disinclinedExternal links
* * *bored
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The piano teacher's bored look betrayed he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's boringly stereotype rendition of the brilliantly composed etudes
