indisposed

Questions about indisposed

What does indisposed mean?

indisposed means "somewhat ill or prone to illness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indisposed?

indisposed has 3 syllables: in-di-sposed. The stress falls on "in".

What is another word for indisposed?

Close synonyms include ailing, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell. 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.

Is indisposed a common word?

indisposed is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.