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 

And at the other side the groove continued on over the land—a well-disposed, respectable groove that supplied hotels at every stopping-place, and hotels on wheels between the stopping-places.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“I hope she will prove a well-disposed girl,” continued Mrs. Norris, “and be sensible of her uncommon good fortune in having such friends.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Though his eyes had been long opened, even before his acquaintance with Elinor began, to her ignorance and a want of liberality in some of her opinions—they had been equally imputed, by him, to her want of education; and till her last letter reached him, he had always believed her to be a well-disposed, good-hearted girl, and thoroughly attached to himself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Price seemed rather surprised that a girl should be fixed on, when she had so many fine boys, but accepted the offer most thankfully, assuring them of her daughter's being a very well-disposed, good-humoured girl, and trusting they would never have cause to throw her off.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A well-disposed young woman, who did not marry for love, was in general but the more attached to her own family; and the nearness of Sotherton to Mansfield must naturally hold out the greatest temptation, and would, in all probability, be a continual supply of the most amiable and innocent enjoyments.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)