The laboratory director was unwilling to approve the new experiment without additional safety data from the team.
实验室主任不愿在没有团队提供额外安全数据的情况下批准新实验。
Which choice best defines “unwilling”?
D — Not ready or eager to do something. “unwilling” means not ready or eager to do something.
Which word means “not ready or eager to do something”?
A — unwilling. “unwilling” means not ready or eager to do something.
unwilling — not ready or eager to do something. In Chinese: 不愿意的.
unwilling is pronounced /ʌnˈwɪlɪŋ/.
The laboratory director was unwilling to approve the new experiment without additional safety data from the team. (实验室主任不愿在没有团队提供额外安全数据的情况下批准新实验。)
reluctant, averse, disinclined — all close in meaning to unwilling (not ready or eager to do something).
willing, eager — each the opposite of unwilling (not ready or eager to do something).
Yes. unwilling is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.