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INDISPOSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed
Example:
clearly indisposed to grant their request
Synonyms:
antipathetic; antipathetical; averse; indisposed; loath; loth
Classified under:
Similar:
disinclined (unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Somewhat ill or prone to illness
Example:
is unwell and can't come to work
Synonyms:
ailing; indisposed; peaked; poorly; seedy; sickly; under the weather; unwell
Classified under:
Similar:
ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)
Context examples:
She could not yet recover from the surprise of what had happened; it was impossible to think of anything else; and, totally indisposed for employment, she resolved, soon after breakfast, to indulge herself in air and exercise.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I made allowance for Steerforth's light way of treating the subject, and, considering it with reference to the staid air of gravity and antiquity which I associated with that lazy old nook near St. Paul's Churchyard, did not feel indisposed towards my aunt's suggestion; which she left to my free decision, making no scruple of telling me that it had occurred to her, on her lately visiting her own proctor in Doctors' Commons for the purpose of settling her will in my favour.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Her plants, her books—of which she had been a collector from the first hour of her commanding a shilling—her writing-desk, and her works of charity and ingenuity, were all within her reach; or if indisposed for employment, if nothing but musing would do, she could scarcely see an object in that room which had not an interesting remembrance connected with it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The evening before this great event (for it was a very great event that Mr. Woodhouse should dine out, on the 24th of December) had been spent by Harriet at Hartfield, and she had gone home so much indisposed with a cold, that, but for her own earnest wish of being nursed by Mrs. Goddard, Emma could not have allowed her to leave the house.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The invitation was accepted; but when the hour of appointment drew near, necessary as it was in common civility to Mrs. Jennings, that they should both attend her on such a visit, Elinor had some difficulty in persuading her sister to go, for still she had seen nothing of Willoughby; and therefore was not more indisposed for amusement abroad, than unwilling to run the risk of his calling again in her absence.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He had received a good education, but, on succeeding early in life to a small independence, had become indisposed for any of the more homely pursuits in which his brothers were engaged, and had satisfied an active, cheerful mind and social temper by entering into the militia of his county, then embodied.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But a day spent in sitting shivering over the fire with a book in her hand, which she was unable to read, or in lying, weary and languid, on a sofa, did not speak much in favour of her amendment; and when, at last, she went early to bed, more and more indisposed, Colonel Brandon was only astonished at her sister's composure, who, though attending and nursing her the whole day, against Marianne's inclination, and forcing proper medicines on her at night, trusted, like Marianne, to the certainty and efficacy of sleep, and felt no real alarm.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
