Synonyms for indisposed
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Ill
ill, unwell, sick, ailing, under the weather, sickly, bad, poorly, out of sorts, seedy, peaked, infirm, unhealthy, sickish
2. Disinclined
disinclined, loath, averse, loth, unwilling, reluctant, backward, antipathetic, antipathetical
Definitions
- adj. 1
Mildly ill.
He was indisposed with a cold.
- adj. 2
Not disposed, predisposed, or inclined; unwilling.
I stayed indoors all day, feeling indisposed to finish mowing the lawn.
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A dunce is always averse to study; a good student is disinclined to it when a fine morning tempts him out; he is indisposed to it in some hour of weariness.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- sick The doctor sat up all night with the sick old man.
- ill They called in a doctor because the child was ill.
- unwell I pretended to be unwell in order to stay at home.
- ailing Yanni left to Algiers to take care of his ailing mother.
- loath AI companies are loath to reveal their secret sauce.
- disinclined I am not at all disinclined to have a glass of good wine.
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1, ill1
- 4 letters
- sick1, loth1
- 5 letters
- seedy2, loath1, ropey
- 6 letters
- poorly2, peaked1, unwell2, ailing2, averse2, sickly2, infirm2
- 7 letters
- sickish
- 8 letters
- disabled3, backward2
- 9 letters
- reluctant3, unhealthy3, unwilling3
- 11 letters
- disinclined3
- 12 letters
- antipathetic
- 14 letters
- antipathetical
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (seedy2 = 2 syllables).