grudging

English

WOTD – 14 September 2009

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹʌ.dʒɪŋ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹʌ.d͡ʒiŋ/

Adjective

grudging (comparative more grudging, superlative most grudging)

1. Unwilling or with reluctance.

   her grudging acceptance that her rival deserved the award

   • 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 25:

     A terse account, with no further explanation or detail, an indication perhaps of a grudging heart behind the offering.

Derived terms

• grudgingly

Related terms

• grudge
• grudger
• grudgy

Translations

unwilling or with reluctance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: modstræbende, modvillig
• Finnish: vastahakoinen (fi)
• German: widerwillig (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: motvillig (no)

• Polish: niechętny (pl), wstrzemięźliwy (pl)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: неохотный (ru) (neoxotnyj)
• Swedish: missunnsam (sv)

Verb

grudging

1. present participle and gerund of grudge

Noun

grudging (plural grudgings)

1. The state of bearing a grudge.
   • 1806, Matthew Henry, An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments:

     Fretfulness and discontent expose us to the just judgment of God; and we bring more calamities upon ourselves, by our murmuring, distrustful, envious groans and grudgings against one another, than we are aware of […]

Anagrams

• drugging