Indisposed

Definitions: Indisposed

Indisposed

Adjective

1. Somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work".

2. (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed; "antipathetic to new ideas"; "averse to taking risks"; "loath to go on such short notice"; "clearly indisposed to grant their request".

Date "indisposed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Synonyms: Indisposed

Synonyms: ailing (adj), antipathetic (adj), antipathetical (adj), averse(p) (adj), indisposed(p) (adj), loath(p) (adj), loth(p) (adj), peaked(p) (adj), poorly(p) (adj), sickly (adj), unwell (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Adjective: diseased; ailing; Verb: ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather; valetudinary.
Incredulity	Adjective: incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible; hard of belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe; suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful, cynical;
Unwillingness	Adjective: unwilling; not in the vein, loth, loath, shy of, disinclined, indisposed, averse, reluctant, not content; adverse; (opposed); laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow to; indifferent; scrupulous; squeamish; (fastidious); repugnant; (dislike); restiff, restive; demurring; Verb: unconsenting; (refusing); involuntary.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Indisposed

English words defined with "indisposed": ailing, antipathetic, antipathetical, averse ♦ Indisposedness ♦ loath, loth, Lymphatic temperament ♦ peaked, poorly, Preindispose ♦ Resty ♦ Sick room, sickly ♦ unwell. (references)

Specialty definitions using "indisposed": AEGROTAT. (references)

Etymologies containing "indisposed": indispose, Indisposedness ♦ Resty. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	In my eyes, indisposed (BLACK HOLE SUN; performing artist: Soundgarden)
Movie/TV Titles	Temporary Indisposed (1992)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Bed Riddance: A Posy for the Indisposed (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Indisposed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 56.25% of the time. "Indisposed" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	56.25%	9	117,287
Adjective (general or positive)	31.25%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (past tense)	12.5%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	16	N/A

Expression using "indisposed": indisposed to believe. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "indisposed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i sëmurë lehtë, i paqejf (half hearted, loath, loth, poorly), zaif (unwell). (various references)

Arabic		‏منحرف الصحة (ailing, sickly, unwell), ‏متوعك (out of health, poorly, seedy, shaky, sickly, sufferer, unwell), ‏نافر من, ‏حائض (unwell). (various references)

Bulgarian		несклонен (averse, disinclined, loath, loth, reluctant, unapt, undisposed, unwilled, unwilling), неразположен (averse, chippy, mean, off color, off colour, out of sorts, poorly, queer, seedy, squeamish, under the weather, unwell). (various references)

Chinese		厌恶 (Disinclination, indispose, Indisposing, loathe, Loathed, loathing, repulsion, sicken, Sickened, sickening), 不適 (out of sorts, unwell). (various references)

Czech		indisponovaný (poorly, unwell), churavý (ailing, ill, poorly, sick, valetudinary). (various references)

Danish		er præsidenten fraværende eller forhindret (if the President is absent or indisposed). (various references)

Dutch		bij afwezigheid of verhindering van de voorzitter (if the President is absent or indisposed). (various references)

Finnish		sairas (diseased, ill, morbid, patholigical, patient, sick, sick person, unwell), pahoinvoipa (unwell), huonovointinen (unwell). (various references)

French		indisposé, souffrant. (various references)

German		unpässlich (poorly, unwell), abgeneigt (antipathetic, averse, disinclined, loath, loth, opposed). (various references)

Greek		απρόθυμοσ (disinclined, half hearted, perfunctory, reluctant, unwilling), αδιάθετοσ (queer, sickish, unwell). (various references)

Hebrew		לא בקו �"בריאות (below par, off color, under the weather, unwell). (various references)

Hungarian		nélkülözhetetlen (indispensable, integral, necessary), gyengélkedõ (ailing, infirmary, sickbay, sickroom, valetudinarian), beteges (bad, fragile, ill-conditioned, infirm, morbid, pathological, seedy, sickly, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Indonesian		tidak suka (dislike). (various references)

Italian		infermo (infirm, invalid), indisposto (off color, poorly, queer, unwell, upset), maldisposto (disaffected, ill disposed). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		気乗りしない (halfhearted). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きのりしない (halfhearted). (various references)

Manx		lag-layntagh (infirm, invalid), aslane (ill). (various references)

Norwegian		utilpass, utilbøyelig (disinclined). (various references)

Pig Latin		indisposeday

Portuguese		indisposto (ailing, cross, ill, ill-affected, livery, off color, off colour, poorness, uncomfortable, unwell), maldisposto de saúde (ill-affected), enfadar (bore, chagrin, disgruntled, importunity, put about, vex). (various references)

Romanian		indispus (ailing, distempered, hipped, in a pet, Moody, out of order, out of temper, poorly, queer, seedy, unwell, upset), uşor bolnav (queer, upset). (various references)

Russian		нерасположенный (averse, ill-affected, undisposed, unwilling), нездоровый (ailing, dicky, diseased, doughy, insalubrious, noisome, poorly, seedy, under the weather, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsound, unwell, unwholesome). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neraspoložen (hipped, ill disposed, mirthless, tune: out of tune). (various references)

Spanish		indispuesto (dog-sick, off color, off colour, queer, under the weather, unfit, unwell). (various references)

Swedish		opasslig (unwell), obenägen (disinclined, loath, loth, unapt, unwilling), indisponerad. (various references)

Turkish		isteksiz (averse, backward, disinclined, grudging, gutless, halfhearted, jaded, languid, loath, loth, reluctant, repugnant, sticky, undesirous, undisposed, unwilling, wet), soğumuş (cooled down, disaffected, estranged), rahatsız (ailing, bad, comfortless, constrained, diseased, disturbed, ill, in bad health, incommodious, out of sorts, poorly, queer, seedy, sick, troubled, uncomfortable, uneasy, unrestful, unwell, worrisome), keyifsiz (ailing, blue, cheerless, dejected, dispirited, doleful, down, humorless, humourless, in the doldrums, mean, off color, off colour, out of humor, out of humour, out of sorts, poor spirited, poorly, queer, seedy, sick, under the weather, unwell), keyfi kaçmış. (various references)

Ukranian		нездоровий (ailing, decadent, feverish, insalubrious, noisome, noxious, off color, off colour, sickly, unfit, unsound, unwell, unwholesome, useless), неприхильний (averse, ill-affected). (various references)

Vietnamese		se mình, không thích (loath, loth, reluctant), không sãn lòng, không muốn (averse, undesirous). (various references)

Welsh		annhueddol (disinclined). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Indisposed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imdisposed, indisoposed, indsiposed, undisposed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-i-n-o-p-s-s"
	-1 letter: diopsides, indispose.
	-2 letters: desponds, diopside, dipodies, dispends, disposed, dopiness, sidespin.
	-3 letters: despond, dispend, dispose, insides, iodides, iodines, iodised, iodises, ionised, ionises, isospin, noddies, oddness, poinded, sinopie, soddens, soddies, spinose.
	-4 letters: didies, didoes, diesis, diodes, dipsos, dissed, donsie, dossed, enosis, eosins, essoin, indies, inside, iodide, iodids, iodine, iodins, iodise, ionise, niseis, noesis, noised, noises, onside.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-i-n-o-p-s-s"
	+4 letters: superadditions.
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