INDISPOSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indisposed mean? 

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

1. somewhat ill or prone to illness

2. (usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed

  Familiarity information: INDISPOSED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDISPOSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Somewhat ill or prone to illness

Synonyms:

ailing; indisposed; peaked; poorly; seedy; sickly; under the weather; unwell

Context example:

is unwell and can't come to work

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed

Synonyms:

antipathetic; antipathetical; averse; indisposed; loath; loth

Context example:

clearly indisposed to grant their request

Similar:

disinclined (unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval)

 Context examples 

Indisposed to hesitate, and full of impatient impulses—soul and senses quivering with keen throes—I put it back and looked in.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mrs. Jenkinson was chiefly employed in watching how little Miss de Bourgh ate, pressing her to try some other dish, and fearing she was indisposed.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"She has been indisposed all day, and we have persuaded her to go to bed."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The chairmen were dismissed; I put the chair, with his lordship in it, into my coat-pocket: and, giving orders to a trusty servant, to say I was indisposed and gone to sleep, I fastened the door of my house, placed the chair on the table, according to my usual custom, and sat down by it.

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

Mary, often a little unwell, and always thinking a great deal of her own complaints, and always in the habit of claiming Anne when anything was the matter, was indisposed; and foreseeing that she should not have a day's health all the autumn, entreated, or rather required her, for it was hardly entreaty, to come to Uppercross Cottage, and bear her company as long as she should want her, instead of going to Bath.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The drawback was, that I was often sleepy at night, or out of spirits and indisposed to resume the story; and then it was rather hard work, and it must be done; for to disappoint or to displease Steerforth was of course out of the question.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The two cousins walked home together; and, except in the immediate discussion of this engagement, which Edmund spoke of with the warmest satisfaction, as so particularly desirable for her in the intimacy which he saw with so much pleasure established, it was a silent walk; for having finished that subject, he grew thoughtful and indisposed for any other.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Miss Fairfax was not well enough to write; and when Mr. Perry called at Hartfield, the same morning, it appeared that she was so much indisposed as to have been visited, though against her own consent, by himself, and that she was suffering under severe headaches, and a nervous fever to a degree, which made him doubt the possibility of her going to Mrs. Smallridge's at the time proposed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It had slipped my memory that you have good reasons to be indisposed for joining in my chatter.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Determined not to quit Marianne, though hopeless of contributing, at present, to her ease, she hurried away to excuse herself from attending Mrs. Jennings, on account of her sister being indisposed.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)