DISPOSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disposed mean? 

• DISPOSED (adjective)
  The adjective DISPOSED has 2 senses:

1. having made preparations

2. (usually followed by 'to') naturally disposed toward

  Familiarity information: DISPOSED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISPOSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having made preparations

Synonyms:

disposed; fain; inclined; prepared

Context example:

prepared to take risks

Similar:

willing (disposed or inclined toward)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(usually followed by 'to') naturally disposed toward

Synonyms:

apt; disposed; given; minded; tending

Context example:

I am not minded to answer any questions

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

I am very little disposed to grant a tenant of Kellynch Hall any extraordinary favour, I assure you, be he sailor or soldier.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She was tenderly disposed toward him, but she did not know it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His appearance is so much against him, and his manner so bad, that if she ever were disposed to favour him, she is not now.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But fortune disposed otherwise of me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Marianne gave one glance round the apartment as she entered: it was enough—HE was not there—and she sat down, equally ill-disposed to receive or communicate pleasure.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I am disposed to help your Grace to the best of my ability, but, in order to do so, I must understand to the last detail how the matter stands.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I should have been afraid to touch a horse when alone, but when told to do it, I was disposed to obey.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“What money have you got, Copperfield?” he said, walking aside with me when he had disposed of my affair in these terms.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Yes, brother Jerome, I wish that this matter be disposed of with as little scandal as may be, and yet it is needful that the example should be a public one.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You are rather disposed to call his interference officious?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)