to indispose

Examples

• All

• The good doctor is indisposed at the moment.

  Virus X (2010)

• When the king is abroad or otherwise indisposed, it is Ba who stands in his place.

  Academic text (1993)

• Lying here, indisposed, you must have had time to consider the problem.

  Cleopatra (1963)

• Since Mama was indisposed, we could do whatever we wanted, and we had the run of the town, just like boys.

  Fiction book (1995)

• He's indisposed at the moment.

  Long Pigs (2007)

• I was a trifle indisposed for a while there.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Since Mrs. Higgins is, uh, indisposed, I mean.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Mr. Mayhew is indisposed at the moment.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Although I was temporarily indisposed due to the loss of my office door key, I wasn't helpless.

  Fiction book (1995)

• During the whole of this day, he was perceptibly indisposed, and spent the night with some degree of restlessness, but on the following day he was perfectly well.

  Academic text (1996)

Synonyms

D

to disincline

vsto indispose

• Formal

7.9

To make someone not want to do something

makes someone unable or unwilling because of illness or poor health

I

to incommode

vsto indispose

• Archaic

9.9

To bother someone by causing them trouble or discomfort

makes someone unable or unwilling often due to illness rather than mere discomfort

Antonyms

E

to enable

459 2.3

To give someone the ability or chance to do something

D

to dispose

• Formal

20 6.6

Make someone likely to do or accept something

How Unable

to incapacitate

46 7.5

to debilitate

20 7.7

to indispose

18 8.3

to deter

94 5.6

to discourage

257 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology