Definition of unwilling

"unwilling" in the adjective sense

1. unwilling

not disposed or inclined toward

"an unwilling assistant"

"unwilling to face facts"

2. unwilling

in spite of contrary volition

"an unwilling smile"

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Quotations for unwilling

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. [ Proverb ]

The unwilling gratitude of base mankind! [ Pope ]

Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling. [ Seneca, from Cleanthes ]

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. [ Seneca ]

Destiny leads the willing, but drags the unwilling. [ Proverb ]

The fear that kills, and hope that is unwilling to be fed. [ Wordsworth ]

One of his hands is unwilling to wash the other for nothing. [ Proverb ]

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent (pledge). [ German Proverb ]

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. [ Lowell ]

Nevertheless, even envy, however unwilling, will have to admit that I have lived among great men. [ Horace ]

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue. [ Chesterfield ]

They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived. [ Lord Clarendon ]

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]

unwilling in Scrabble®

The word unwilling is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters unwilling:

UNWILLING
(126)
UNWILLING
(126)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

willing

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word unwilling

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In unwilling

UNWILLING
(126)
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WILLING
(95 = 45 + 50)
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unwilling in Words With Friends™

The word unwilling is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 19

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters unwilling:

UNWILLING
(225)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

willing

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word unwilling

UNWILLING
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In unwilling

UNWILLING
(225)
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(138)
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UNWILLING
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Words within the letters of unwilling

2 letter words in unwilling (3 words)

3 letter words in unwilling (10 words)

4 letter words in unwilling (6 words)

6 letter words in unwilling (6 words)

7 letter words in unwilling (1 word)

9 letter words in unwilling (1 word)

unwilling + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence unwilling

Words that start with unwilling (3 words)

Words with unwilling in them (1 word)

Words that end with unwilling (1 word)

Word Growth involving unwilling

Shorter words in unwilling

un unwill

ill will unwill

in willing

ill will willing

Longer words containing unwilling

unwillingly

unwillingness