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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Unwilling or reluctant; disinclined: I am loath to go on such short notice.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Hateful; disliked; detested.
  2. Feeling extreme unwillingness or aversion; very unwilling; reluctant; averse.
  3. n. Evil; harm; injury.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. unwilling, reluctant; averse, disinclined
  2. adj. obsolete hostile, angry, loathsome, unpleasant

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Hateful; odious; disliked.
  2. adj. Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom
  2. adj. (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed

Etymologies

  1. From loth, from Middle English loth ("disinclined"; "loathsome"), from Old English lāþ ("loathsome", "evil") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English loth, displeasing, loath, from Old English lāth, hateful, loathsome. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • minerva For a variant, see loth. Dec 15, 2007

  • bilby I swear an oathe never to so do. Dec 15, 2007

  • sarra Loath is loath to be misspelt with an e. Dec 15, 2007

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