indisposed

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English disposed

English indisposed

From in- + disposed.

Adjective

indisposed (comparative more indisposed, superlative most indisposed)

1. Mildly ill.

   He was indisposed with a cold.

2. Not disposed, predisposed, or inclined; unwilling.

   I stayed indoors all day, feeling indisposed to finish mowing the lawn.

3. Not yet ready (especially with regard to receiving a visitor) because not yet arranged into a state of readiness (i.e., not disposed); (especially, more specifically):
   1. (euphemistic) In the lavatory/WC.
   2. (euphemistic) Undressed; not yet dressed enough to be seen by visitors.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:diseased

Derived terms

• indisposedness
• preindisposed

Related terms

• indisposition

Translations

mildly ill

• Bulgarian: неразположен (bg) (nerazpoložen)
• Catalan: indisposat (ca)
• French: indisposé (fr)
• German: unpässlich (de)
• Hungarian: indiszponált (hu), gyengélkedő (hu)
• Italian: indisposto (it)
• Polish: niedysponowany
• Portuguese: indisposto (pt)
• Russian: недомогающий (ru) (nedomogajuščij)
• Spanish: indispuesto (es)

not disposed or inclined; unwilling

• German: abgeneigt (de), ohne Lust zu, ohne Antrieb, lustlos (de)
• Polish: niechętny (pl), nieskłonny, nieskory
• Russian: несклонный (ru) (nesklonnyj)