disposed

Apt to act

Disposed means inclined or willing: I'm not disposed to help after what happened.

With "of," it means gotten rid of: The evidence was disposed of.

Someone well-disposed toward you is favorably inclined; ill-disposed means the opposite.

A disposed person has a particular temperament: a cheerfully disposed child.

willing

agreeable

Pleasantly cooperative

keen · cooperative · accommodating · compliant · voluntary · consenting · receptive · ungrudging · game · accepting

inclined

predisposed

Inclined beforehand

  • proneInclined or face-down
  • aptNaturally suited or inclined
  • liableLegally responsible for something

given · tending · bent · leaning · susceptible · amenable · partial · biased · sympathetic · favorably

discarded

thrown away

Disposed of as refuse

trashed · scrapped · ditched · tossed · binned · chucked · cast off · shed · offloaded · unloaded

arranged

placed

Put somewhere specific

distributed · arrayed · configured · aligned · set · laid out · grouped · situated · stationed · marshaled

Categories
Opposites
willingness/inclination

disposeddisinclined

Averse to acting

indisposed · unwilling · reluctant · averse · loath

readiness/preparedness

disposedunready

Not yet prepared

unprepared · unlikely · unsettled · unfit · ill-prepared

retention/possession

disposedretained

Continued to hold

kept · held · preserved · saved · stored

Phrases
Family

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