loath
LOHTHadjMeaning unwilling; reluctant
Memory hook a SLOTH is LOATH to let go. Time to climb down? The sloth hugs its cozy branch and won’t budge an inch. A sloth is always loath to let go.
Grandpa was loath to sell the old truck he had driven for forty years.
In context Though the job paid well, Nell was loath to take it, because it meant moving far from the friends and the garden she loved.
Similar unwilling, reluctant, disinclined, averse
Opposite eager, willing, keen
From Old English lath, “hostile, hateful,” the same source as loathe.