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DISPOSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'to') naturally disposed toward
Example:
I am not minded to answer any questions
Synonyms:
apt; disposed; given; minded; tending
Classified under:
Similar:
inclined ((often followed by 'to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having made preparations
Example:
prepared to take risks
Synonyms:
disposed; fain; inclined; prepared
Classified under:
Similar:
willing (disposed or inclined toward)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb dispose
Context examples:
Then she tried a child's story, which she could easily have disposed of if she had not been mercenary enough to demand filthy lucre for it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I am well disposed towards him, however, and I consider him eminently adapted for the profession which he is about to adopt.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Large and cheerful-looking, and the dressing-closets so well disposed!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He cannot have been disposed of in so short a space; he must be still alive, he must have fled!
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Favorably disposed; not antagonistic or hostile.
(Friendly, NCI Thesaurus)
We were all disposed to wonder, but it seems to have been the merciful appointment of Providence that the heart which knew no guile should not suffer.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A third, as I had seen, the doctor had disposed of at a blow.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And at the other side the groove continued on over the land—a well-disposed, respectable groove that supplied hotels at every stopping-place, and hotels on wheels between the stopping-places.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Perhaps during former years he had suffered from the late-discovered unworthiness of one beloved and so was disposed to set a greater value on tried worth.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But the servant, who was well disposed to the huntsmen, went to them, and disclosed the project.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
