Willing

Definition of Willing

Will´ing
a.1.Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready.
Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
- Acts xxiv. 27.
With wearied wings and willing feet.
- Milton.
[Fruit] shaken in August from the willing boughs.
- Bryant.
2.Received of choice, or without reluctance; submitted to voluntarily; chosen; desired.
[They] are held, with his melodious harmony,
In willing chains and sweet captivity.
- Milton.
3.Spontaneous; self-moved.
No spouts of blood run willing from a tree.
- Dryden.

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accordant, acquiescent, affirmative, alacritous, amenable, approving, apt, ardent, assenting, bright, clever, compliable, compliant, complying, conative, conforming, consentient, content, cooperative, deliberate, determined, devoted, disposed, docile, duteous, dutiful, eager, educable, endorsing, experimental, facile, fain, fair, faithful, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, formable, forward, game, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, instructable, intelligent, intentional, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, minded, moldable, motivated, nothing loath, obedient, open, permissive, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ratifying, ready, ready and willing, receptive, resolute, responsive, ripe for instruction, sanctioning, schoolable, submissive, susceptible, teachable, tentative, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, trainable, trial, unforced, ungrudging, unloath, unrefusing, unreluctant, venturesome, volitional, voluntary, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willful, willinghearted, witting, zealous
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