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Thesaurus: loath

Hateful; odious; disliked.

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  1. a. Hateful; odious; disliked.
  2. a. Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part.
  3. adj. unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom
  4. adj. (usually followed by ‘to’) strongly opposed
  5. 1. Hateful; odious; disliked. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part. Full loth were him to curse for his tithes. Chaucer . Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content. Shak.
  6. j:100 s. unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom