loath
loath (lōt̸h, lōt̸h)
adjective
Etymology: ME loth < OE lath, hostile, hateful, akin to Ger leid, sorrow (orig. adj.) < IE base *leit-, to detest, abhor > Gr aleitēs, sinner
nothing loath
loath
modif.
Infinitive complement
- admit: Talking of lighting, I'm loath to admit that we nearly fused all the lights with a faulty kettle!
- let: The devil is loath to let us go too far, lest Christ get a subject into his kingdom.
- leave: My brothers left the farm when they came of age, but I stayed a year longer, loath to leave home.
- lose: In fact many funds are loath to lose the ' illiquidity premium ' of real estate by joining pooled vehicles.
- give: Obviously the Belgians were loath to give land over to the enemy's dead.
- go: I linger by the fire, loath to go to bed.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: They all recognize the importance of consumption, but most seem loath to discuss the details.
- do: One of his rather uninspiring quotes was: " How I did loath that journey around the world!
Modifying Another Word
- very: PIPES: The CIA was very loath to deal with issues which could not be demonstrated in a kind of mathematical form.
- so: No wonder the political parties are so loath to get involved.
- often: Unless faced will ` real life ' situations developers are often loath to modify code or their work practices.
- not: The young man was not loath to take the hint.
- still: Clearly members wanted management but were still loath to give ' management ' any power.
- now: Which may just explain both why the Chumash are now loath to discuss it.
Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.
I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. And ye shall know that I am the L, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers. And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loath yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
Browse dictionary entries near loath
- loanword
- loanshift
- loaner
- loaned
- loanable
- loan value
- loan translation
- loan-to-value ratio
- loan-sharking
- loan shark
- loathe
- loathed
- loather
- loathful
- loathing
- loathly
- loathness
- loathsome
- loathsomely
- loathsomeness
