adjective
- sick or ill, especially slightly: to be indisposed with a cold.
- disinclined or unwilling; averse: indisposed to help.
verb (used with object), in·dis·posed, in·dis·pos·ing.
- to make ill, especially slightly.
- to put out of the proper condition for something; make unfit: The long tennis match indisposed me for any further physical activity that day.
- to render averse or unwilling; disincline: His anger indisposed him from helping.
adjective
- sick or ill
- unwilling
verb (tr)
- to make unwilling or opposed; disincline
- to cause to feel ill
- to make unfit (for something or to do something)
c.1400, “unprepared;” early 15c., “not in order,” from in- (1) “not” + disposed; or else from Late Latin indispositus “without order, confused.” Mid-15c. as “diseased;” modern sense of “not very well” is from 1590s. A verb indispose is attested from 1650s but is perhaps a back-formation of this.
v.
- To cause to be or feel ill; sicken.