DISINCLINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disinclined mean? 

• DISINCLINED (adjective)
  The adjective DISINCLINED has 1 sense:

1. unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval

  Familiarity information: DISINCLINED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISINCLINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval

Context example:

disinclined to say anything to anybody

Similar:

afraid (having feelings of aversion or unwillingness)

antipathetic; antipathetical; averse; indisposed; loath; loth ((usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed)

reluctant (disinclined to become involved)

Also:

negative (expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial)

unwilling (not disposed or inclined toward)

Antonym:

inclined ((often followed by 'to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency)

 Context examples 

I found my pupil sufficiently docile, though disinclined to apply: she had not been used to regular occupation of any kind.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He added that Mr. Bennet seemed wholly disinclined at present to leave London and promised to write again very soon.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Sir Thomas, drawing back from intimacies in general, was particularly disinclined, at this time, for any engagements but in one quarter.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Robert Martin would never have proceeded so far, if he had not felt persuaded of her not being disinclined to him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

White Fang was disinclined to desert him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination; but by some fatality the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Fanny was very anxious to be useful, and not to appear above her home, or in any way disqualified or disinclined, by her foreign education, from contributing her help to its comforts, and therefore set about working for Sam immediately; and by working early and late, with perseverance and great despatch, did so much that the boy was shipped off at last, with more than half his linen ready.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)