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–adjective 

unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse: to [be] loath to [admit] a mistake. 

Also, loth.



—Synonyms 

See reluctant.



Reluctant, loath, averse describe disinclination toward something. 



Reluctant implies some sort of mental struggle, as between [disinclination] and [sense of duty]: reluctant to [expel students].



Loath describes extreme disinclination: loath to [part] from a friend. 



Averse, used with to and a noun or a gerund, describes a long-held dislike or unwillingness, though not a particularly strong feeling: 



1. averse to [an idea]

2. averse to [getting] up early. 



see advert (refer to, stuffy)



—Antonyms 

eager.





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loath, loth (adj.), loathe (v.), nothing loath (adv., adj.)

   

The adjective (pronounced to rhyme with either both [BOTH] or loathe [LOTH]) means "reluctant, unwilling," as in She [was] loath to stay longer. Loth, though mainly British, is an infrequent American variant spelling. 



Nothing loath is an idiom meaning "willing or willingly," as in 



We were [nothing loath] to try the new game; 

[Nothing loath], we plunged in. 



The verb loathe ends in a voiced【語】濁音的 th sound and voices the final -s in its third person singular present tense, as in He loathes [pronounced LOTHZ] [asparagus]. 





  

Mostly (and this is historically true) Goya wished to pursue his genius unhindered by political intrusion. If that meant painting portraits — many of them subtly touched by his loath[ing] — of all his country's rulers, that was all right with Goya. Many of his greatest works, notably the etchings depicting man's inhumanity to man, either circulated anonymously or were not published until after his death. 



That judgment applies particularly to Bardem's performance as the loathsome Lorenzo. In the beginning, as he volunteers to lead the newly revived Inquisition, he is all soft-voiced reason. He is polite to the point of obsequiousness, not only to his church superiors, but even to the people he torments.