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Definition loath

Etymology 1

From Middle English l?th (“displeasing, hateful, unpleasant; horrible, loathsome; evil, malignant; disinclined, unwilling; difficult, troublesome; displeased, dissatisfied”), from Old English l?ð, l?þ (“evil; loathsome”), or Old Norse leið, leiðr (“uncomfortable; tired”) from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“loath; disgusting, loathsome; averse, reluctant, unwilling; hostile; sad, sorry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?leyt- (“to do something abhorrent or hateful”). The word is cognate with Danish led (“disgusting, loathsome; nasty”), Dutch leed (“sad; (Belgium) angry”), French laid (“ugly; morally corrupt”), Icelandic leiður (“annoyed, vexed; sad; (archaic or poetic) annoying, wearisome”), Italian laido (“filthy, foul; obscene”), Old Frisian leed, Old High German leid (Middle High German leit, modern German leid (“uncomfortable”), Leid (“grief, sorrow, woe; affliction, suffering; harm, injury; wrong”)), Old Saxon lêð, l?th (“evil person or thing”), Swedish led (“bored; tired; (archaic) disgusting, loathsome; evil”).

Adjective

loath (comparative loather, superlative loathest)

1. Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling.
2. (obsolete) Angry, hostile.
3. (obsolete) Loathsome, unpleasant.

Etymology 2

Verb

loath (third-person singular simple present loaths, present participle loathing, simple past and past participle loathed)

1. Obsolete spelling of loathe

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