indispose

Other forms of indispose

past tense

indisposed·

present participle

indisposing·

third person

indisposes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about indispose

What does indispose mean?

indispose means "make unwilling". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indispose?

indispose has 3 syllables: in-di-spose. The stress falls on "in".

What is another word for indispose?

Close synonyms include disincline, disqualify, unfit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of indispose?

The recorded antonyms are dispose.

Is indispose a common word?

indispose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.