LOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loth mean? 

• LOTH (adjective)
  The adjective LOTH has 2 senses:

1. unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom

2. (usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed

  Familiarity information: LOTH used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom

Synonyms:

loath; loth; reluctant

Context example:

loath to admit a mistake

Similar:

unwilling (not disposed or inclined toward)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed

Synonyms:

antipathetic; antipathetical; averse; indisposed; loath; loth

Context example:

clearly indisposed to grant their request

Similar:

disinclined (unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval)

 Context examples 

But Harriet was in a tremor, and could not touch it; and Emma, never loth to be first, was obliged to examine it herself.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Had we known that your own coffers were so low, or that this sorry sum could have weighed one way or the other, we had been loth indeed—”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every day she seems to get fonder and fonder of her uncle, and more loth to part from all of us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yet I should be loth to blame you, for I doubt not that what you said was not meant to sadden me, nor to bring my sore affliction back to my mind.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of Dora's being ready, and of Miss Lavinia's hovering about her, loth to lose the pretty toy that has given her so much pleasant occupation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Not having read much of late, he said, I am loth to say too much about what this may be.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I am quick to love, and quick to hate and 'fore God I am loth to part.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are reasons why he would be loth to refuse me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By St. Paul!” he cried, “I have fought in many a little bickering, but never one that I would be more loth to have missed than this. But you are wounded, Alleyne?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I deem it best that ye should leave your squires and come with me, for, howsoe'er pressed the prince may be, I am very sure that he would be loth to keep two old comrades-in-arms upon the further side of the door.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)