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say it: lohth
loath is an adjective meaning "unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom". It is pronounced /ˈloʊθ/ — lohth. It carries 2 recorded senses.
(usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
“antipathetic to new ideas”
“averse to taking risks”
“loath to go on such short notice”
“clearly indisposed to grant their request”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for loath come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.