âCoffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.â â Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
antipathetic, antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loath, loth
(adjective) (usually followed by âtoâ) strongly opposed; âantipathetic to new ideasâ; âaverse to taking risksâ; âloath to go on such short noticeâ; âclearly indisposed to grant their requestâ
loath, loth, reluctant
(adjective) unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; âa reluctant smileâ; âloath to admit a mistakeâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
loath (comparative loather, superlative loathest)
Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling.
(obsolete) Angry, hostile.
(obsolete) Loathsome, unpleasant.
• The spelling loath is about four times as common as loth in Britain, and about fifty times as common in the United States.
• The word should not be confused with the related verb loathe.
loath (third-person singular simple present loaths, present participle loathing, simple past and past participle loathed)
Obsolete spelling of loathe.
• Athol, altho, altho', lotah, tolah
Source: Wiktionary
Loath, a. Etym: [OE. looth, loth, AS. la hostile, odious; akin to OS. l, G. leid, Icel. lei, Sw. led, G. leiden to suffer, OHG. lidan to suffer, go, cf. AS. li to go, Goth. leipan, and E. lead to guide.]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; âThe French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the countryâ
âCoffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.â â Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States