luct- +

1. A struggling to resist.
2. A striving against.
3. Resistance; opposition of nature.

1. A struggling; a contention.
2. A wrestling or struggling together; strife, conflict, opposition.

Incapability of being evaded; inescapability; inevitability: The ineluctability of death is considered by many to be an unavoidable destiny.

A reference to something which is incapable of being avoided or evaded; inescapable; certain, inevitable: Utilizing a proper diet and exercise has an ineluctable superiority over an excessive eating and a "couch-potato" existence. © ALL rights are reserved.
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Describing how something is inescapable or unavoidable: It is ineluctably true and inevitable that one day each living being must die.

An effort to overcome in a contest; a struggle; or an endeavor.

A struggling or striving against; a resistance.

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.

A state of being reluctant; unwillingness.

1. Referring to a person who is unwilling to become involved: The boys at school were reluctant to socialize with the new student.
2. Relating to someone who is not very willing to do something and therefore slow to do it: The people waiting for the bus were reluctant to help the drunk get on it when it arrived.
3. Etymology: from Latin reluctari, "to struggle" from re, "against, opposite" + luctari, "to struggle." © ALL rights are reserved.

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A reference to not wanting to do something and therefore slow to do it.