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✅ Ready or prepared 🙂 Willing or likely
disposed

disposed

5.3
Ready to do something
  • adjective
  • /dɪˈspoʊzd/
translation icon : dispuesto
  • The team was well disposed to begin the project as soon as funding was approved.

Examples

  • The team is disposed to accept the terms.

  • He felt disposed to accept the challenging assignment after considering his options.

  • She is always disposed to help others whenever she can.

  • She is disposed to help others.

  • He felt disposed to accept the challenging assignment after considering his options.

  • She is always disposed to help others whenever she can.

  • The team was well disposed to begin the project as soon as funding was approved.

Synonyms

set
vsdisposed
403 2.3

Located in a particular place or position

focuses on being ready to act rather than just being arranged
prepared
vsdisposed
103 1.3

Ready to use or do something when needed

is ready specifically to act because preparations were made

Antonyms

unprepared
69 2.8

Not ready for something because the things you need or a plan are missing

Idioms

well disposed
1 5.8

Being friendly and ready to help or support people and ideas

How Ready

keen
85 2.3
disposed
5.3
unprepared
69 2.8

Surface Forms

disposed positive

Morphology

disposed = dispose (semi-transparent) = dispose + ed

Formed from the verb 'dispose' with the participial suffix '-ed', but the sense 'having made preparations/ready' relies on an older sense ('arrange') that may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Disposed comes from the Latin parts dis- 'apart' and ponere 'to place', the same root as position. So if you are disposed to do something in the sense of 'prepared', imagine being 'put in place' and ready to act.