luct- +
(Latin: struggle, struggling)
colluctancy
1. A struggling to resist.
2. A striving against.
3. Resistance; opposition of nature.
colluctation
1. A struggling; a contention.
2. A wrestling or struggling together; strife, conflict, opposition.
ineluctability
1. Not to be avoided, changed, or resisted.
2. Incapable of being evaded; inescapable: "Death is considered by many to be an ineluctable destiny."
ineluctable
1. Incapable of being avoided or evaded; inescapable; certain, inevitable.
2. Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable: "Utilizing proper diet and exercise is an ineluctable superiority over an excessive eating and 'couch-potato' existence."
ineluctably
The quality of being impossible to avoid or to evade.
luctation
An effort to overcome in a contest; a struggle; or an endeavor.
obluctation
A struggling or striving against; a resistance.
reluctance
1. A certain degree of unwillingness: "There was a reluctance to commit himself to the project."
2. In physics, an opposition to magnetic flux; analogous to electric resistance.
reluctancy
A state of being reluctant; unwillingness.
reluctant
1. Unwilling to become involved: "The boys were reluctant to socialize with the new student."
2. Not eager: "They were reluctant to help the drunk."
3. Unwillingness to do something which is contrary to one's custom.
4. Not very willing to do something and therefore slow to do it.
reluctantly
A reference to not wanting to do something and therefore slow to do it.
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