Unwillingly

Definition: Unwillingly

Unwillingly

Adverb

1. In an unwilling manner; "he had sinned against her unwillingly".

Date "unwillingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Antonym: willingly (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Unwillingness	Adverb: unwillingly; Adjective: grudgingly, with a heavy heart; with a bad, with an ill grace; against one's wishes, against one's will, against the grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against one's grain; invita Minerva; a contre caeur; malgre soi; in spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself; nolens volens; (necessity); perforce; under protest; no; not for the world, far be it from me.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unwillingly

English words defined with "unwillingly": Against the grain, Aversely ♦ begrudge ♦ grudge ♦ relinquished, resent ♦ submit, surrendered ♦ take ♦ undergo. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unwillingly": Alms, Ass ♦ Newspaper Reporter ♦ SLANG ♦ Yoke. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Unwillingly to (more) school (reference) Unwillingly to Earth (reference) Unwillingly to school (reference) Unwillingly to Vegas (A Large Print Mystery) [LARGE PRINT] (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	It's perfect, he said, almost unwillingly. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Virgil	Unwillingly I left your land, O Queen.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Guatemala	Demonstrations were undertaken by: Coffee plantation workers calling for government assistance, fishermen denied beach access, indigenous communities dissatisfied with police and juridical services, high school students opposed to the national literacy campaign because they were being forced unwillingly to conduct after hours reading classes for adults with very little preparation and materials, and families of persons who disappeared during the conflict. (references)
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"Unwillingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.13% of the time. "Unwillingly" is used about 115 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	99.13%	114	30,294
Noun (proper)	0.87%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	115	N/A

Expression using "unwillingly": willingly or unwillingly. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "unwillingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pahir, pa qejf (aversely, grudgingly, half-heartedly, loathly, logy, reluctantly), pa dëshirë (reluctantly, spiritless), me pahir. (various references)

Arabic		‏كرها (compulsorily, forcibly, reluctantly). (various references)

Bulgarian		неохотно (grudgingly, half-heartedly, regretfully, reluctantly), против волята си. (various references)

Chinese		不愿意地. (various references)

Czech		neochotnì (disobligingly, reluctantly), nedobrovolnì. (various references)

Finnish		vastenmielisesti (against one's will, reluctantly), epämieluisasti (reluctantly). (various references)

French		de mauvaise grâce, contre son gré (under protest), � contrec�"ur. (various references)

German		widerwillig (begrudging, begrudgingly, grudging, reluctant, reluctantly, relucting, unwilling). (various references)

Greek		ακουσίωσ (grudgingly, loathly). (various references)

Hebrew		בעל כרחו (against one's will, forcibly, perforce, willy nilly). (various references)

Hungarian		vonakodva (aversely, grudgingly, loath, loth, reluctantly). (various references)

Italian		malvolentieri (against one's will, reluctantly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		渋々 (reluctantly), 嫌々 (grudgingly, shaking head in refusal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しぶしぶ (reluctantly), いやいや (by no means, grudgingly, reluctantly, shaking head in refusal). (various references)

Korean		내키지 않. (various references)

Pig Latin		illinglyunway

Portuguese		de má vontade (unwilling), com relutância (aversely, reluctantly). (various references)

Romanian		fãrã voie (involuntary, unintentional), din greşealã (by mistake), cu neplãcere. (various references)

Russian		неохотно (aversely, grudgingly, reluctantly, with a bad grace, with half a heart). (various references)

Scottish		sòr (give unwillingly, grudge, hesitate, spare). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		protiv volje (reluctant), nerado (aversely). (various references)

Spanish		desganadamente, a regañadientes (grudgingly, reluctantly), a rastras. (various references)

Swedish		ogärna. (various references)

Turkish		istemeyerek, istemeye istemeye (grudgingly), isteksizce (against the grain, grudgingly, halfheartedly, reluctantly), gönülsüzce (grudgingly, halfheartedly, reluctantly). (various references)

Ukrainian		неохоче (aversely, grudgingly, reluctantly). (various references)

Vietnamese		miễn cưỡng không thiện ý, không vui lòng, không bằng lòng (disaffected, disgruntled, dissatisfied, unconsenting, unwilling). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ingrate ingratiis ingratis, ingratis. (various references)
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# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unwillingly" (pronounced unwi"linglē)
7	-w i" l i ng l ē	willingly.
6	-i" l i ng l ē	chillingly.
5	-l i ng l ē	appallingly, appealingly, compellingly, smilingly, startlingly, tellingly, unfailingly.
4	-i ng l ē	accordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, confusingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, devastatingly, disappointingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frighteningly, frowningly, frustratingly, glowingly, grudgingly, haltingly, hauntingly, increasingly, interestingly, intriguingly, jokingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, maddeningly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, pleasingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, strikingly, stunningly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, threateningly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unthinkingly, unwittingly, warningly, wittingly.
3	-ng l ē	gangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-i-i-l-l-l-n-n-u-w-y"
	-2 letters: unwilling, willingly.
	-3 letters: willying.
	-4 letters: lulling, nilling, nulling, willing.
	-5 letters: gluily, inulin, lignin, lining, lungyi, uglily, wilily, wiling, wining, wyling.
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