WELL DISPOSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well disposed mean? 

• WELL DISPOSED (adjective)
  The adjective WELL DISPOSED has 1 sense:

1. inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile

  Familiarity information: WELL DISPOSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL DISPOSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile

Synonyms:

friendly; well-disposed; well disposed

Context example:

a relaxed environment well-disposed to the appreciation of good food and fine wine

Similar:

amicable (characterized by friendship and good will)

 Context examples 

To those, however, he was very well disposed to attach himself.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Large and cheerful-looking, and the dressing-closets so well disposed!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

As for yourself, continued the king, who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country.

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

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)

But the servant, who was well disposed to the huntsmen, went to them, and disclosed the project.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But it was not immediately that an opportunity of doing so could be commanded, though Lucy was as well disposed as herself to take advantage of any that occurred; for the weather was not often fine enough to allow of their joining in a walk, where they might most easily separate themselves from the others; and though they met at least every other evening either at the park or cottage, and chiefly at the former, they could not be supposed to meet for the sake of conversation.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Tom understood his father's thoughts, and heartily wishing he might be always as well disposed to give them but partial expression, began to see, more clearly than he had ever done before, that there might be some ground of offence, that there might be some reason for the glance his father gave towards the ceiling and stucco of the room; and that when he inquired with mild gravity after the fate of the billiard-table, he was not proceeding beyond a very allowable curiosity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Each lady was previously well disposed for an agreement, and saw nothing, therefore, but good manners in the other; and with regard to the gentlemen, there was such an hearty good humour, such an open, trusting liberality on the Admiral's side, as could not but influence Sir Walter, who had besides been flattered into his very best and most polished behaviour by Mr Shepherd's assurances of his being known, by report, to the Admiral, as a model of good breeding.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Disappointed, however, and vexed as she was, and sometimes displeased with his uncertain behaviour to herself, she was very well disposed on the whole to regard his actions with all the candid allowances and generous qualifications, which had been rather more painfully extorted from her, for Willoughby's service, by her mother.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)