1.
If you are ~ to do something, you do not want to do it and will not agree to do it.
Initially the government was ~ to accept the defeat...
For months I had been either ~ or unable to go through with it.
? willing
ADJ: usu v-link, usu ADJ to-inf
~ness
...their ~ness to accept responsibility for mistakes.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N to-inf
2.
You can use ~ to describe someone who does not really want to do the thing they are doing.
A youthful teacher, he finds himself an ~ participant in school politics...
= reluctant
ADJ: usu ADJ n
~ly
My beard had started to grow, and I had ~ly complied with the order to shave it off...
Unwillingly, she moved aside.
= reluctantly
ADV: ADV with v, ADV with cl