"grudgingly" meaning in All languages combined

See grudgingly on Wiktionary

Adverb [English]

Forms: more grudgingly [comparative], most grudgingly [superlative]
Etymology: From grudging + -ly. Etymology templates: {{af|en|grudging|-ly|id2=adverbial}} grudging + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} grudgingly (comparative more grudgingly, superlative most grudgingly)
  1. In a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire. Synonyms: petulantly, unwillingly Translations (in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire): неохотно (neohotno) (Bulgarian), 勉強地 /勉强地 (miǎnqiǎng de) (Chinese Mandarin), met tegenzin (Dutch), vastahakoisesti (Finnish), svogliatamente (Italian), malvolentieri (Italian), di malavoglia (Italian), motvillig (Norwegian Bokmål), a contra gosto (Portuguese), relutante (Portuguese), cu ranchiună (Romanian), cu rea-voință (Romanian), a regañadientes (Spanish), de mala gana (Spanish), a cara de perro (Spanish)
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grudging",
        "3": "-ly",
        "id2": "adverbial"
      },
      "expansion": "grudging + -ly",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From grudging + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more grudgingly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most grudgingly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "grudgingly (comparative more grudgingly, superlative most grudgingly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Bulgarian terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008–2021, qntm, “We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 9:",
          "text": "\"This is just a cover story,\" Clay says to O5-8, not taking his eyes off Marion. \"It's a good one, but she's had it worked out in advance.\"\n\"Clay, lose the piece,\" says the O5.\nGrudgingly, Clay does so.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Canongate, published 2015, page 226:",
          "text": "I was left to play my part, grudgingly, in the eternal jugalbandi of tourist life: ‘Boat, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’ ‘Rickshaw, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 November 21, Benjamin Mueller, “At Odds With Labour, Britain’s Jews Are Feeling Politically Homeless”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-13:",
          "text": "Online and over Shabbat dinners, arguments about the election have grown bitter. Those grudgingly planning to vote for Labour have been called traitors to the community and self-hating Jews. Anti-Corbyn die-hards, on the other hand, have been branded the handmaidens of a hard Brexit.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire."
      ],
      "id": "en-grudgingly-en-adv-11lxCqEo",
      "links": [
        [
          "express",
          "express"
        ],
        [
          "resentment",
          "resentment"
        ],
        [
          "desire",
          "desire"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "petulantly"
        },
        {
          "word": "unwillingly"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "neohotno",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "неохотно"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "miǎnqiǎng de",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "勉強地 /勉强地"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "met tegenzin"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "vastahakoisesti"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "svogliatamente"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "malvolentieri"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "di malavoglia"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "motvillig"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "a contra gosto"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "relutante"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "cu ranchiună"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "cu rea-voință"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "a regañadientes"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "de mala gana"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
          "word": "a cara de perro"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "grudgingly"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grudging",
        "3": "-ly",
        "id2": "adverbial"
      },
      "expansion": "grudging + -ly",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From grudging + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more grudgingly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most grudgingly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "grudgingly (comparative more grudgingly, superlative most grudgingly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Bulgarian terms with redundant script codes",
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008–2021, qntm, “We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 9:",
          "text": "\"This is just a cover story,\" Clay says to O5-8, not taking his eyes off Marion. \"It's a good one, but she's had it worked out in advance.\"\n\"Clay, lose the piece,\" says the O5.\nGrudgingly, Clay does so.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Canongate, published 2015, page 226:",
          "text": "I was left to play my part, grudgingly, in the eternal jugalbandi of tourist life: ‘Boat, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’ ‘Rickshaw, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 November 21, Benjamin Mueller, “At Odds With Labour, Britain’s Jews Are Feeling Politically Homeless”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-13:",
          "text": "Online and over Shabbat dinners, arguments about the election have grown bitter. Those grudgingly planning to vote for Labour have been called traitors to the community and self-hating Jews. Anti-Corbyn die-hards, on the other hand, have been branded the handmaidens of a hard Brexit.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "express",
          "express"
        ],
        [
          "resentment",
          "resentment"
        ],
        [
          "desire",
          "desire"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "petulantly"
    },
    {
      "word": "unwillingly"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neohotno",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "неохотно"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "miǎnqiǎng de",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "勉強地 /勉强地"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "met tegenzin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "vastahakoisesti"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "svogliatamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "malvolentieri"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "di malavoglia"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "motvillig"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "a contra gosto"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "relutante"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "cu ranchiună"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "cu rea-voință"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "a regañadientes"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "de mala gana"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire",
      "word": "a cara de perro"
    }
  ],
  "word": "grudgingly"
}

Download raw JSONL data for grudgingly meaning in All languages combined (4.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.