Disposition
[dɪspə'zɪʃ(ə)n] or ['dɪspə'zɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) your usual mood; 'he has a happy disposition'.
(noun.) a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; 'a swelling with a disposition to rupture'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
(n.) The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
(n.) Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
(n.) Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
(n.) Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.
(n.) Mood; humor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Disposing, arranging, arrangement, classification, grouping.[2]. Management, regulation, control, direction, ordering, adjustment, disposure, disposal.[3]. Tendency, liability, proneness, aptness, adaptation.[4]. Temper, inclination, predisposition, propensity, humor, bent, bias, turn.[5]. Dispensation, distribution, bestowment.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DISPOSE]
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Definition
n. arrangement: plan for disposing one's property &c.: natural tendency: temper: (N.T.) ministration: (Scots law) a giving over to another = conveyance or assignment in Eng. phraseology—often 'disposition and settlement ' a deed for the disposal of a man's property at his death.—adjs. Disposi′tional; Disposi′tioned; Dispos′itive.—adv. Dispos′itively.—ns. Dispos′itor a planet that disposes or controls another; Dispō′sure (obs.) disposal arrangement: disposition.
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Examples
- And you're naturally of a polite disposition, you are. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mrs. Weston was very ready to say how attentive and pleasant a companion he made himselfhow much she saw to like in his disposition altogether. Jane Austen. Emma.
- My disposition is, if I may say so, eminently practical. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Neither Laura nor I were in any favorable disposition to be amused. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I never met with a disposition more truly amiable. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He saw Heloise, and was captivated by her blooming youth, her beauty, and her charming disposition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This foresight increases still further his natural disposition to save. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Upon her disposition he believed kindness might be the best way of working. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Cassy's air and manner, address, and evident command of money, prevented any rising disposition to suspicion in the hotel. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Yet, all things considered, she was not of an evil mind or an unkindly disposition. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Before my eyes, too, his disposition seemed to unfold another phase; to pass to a fresh day: to rise in new and nobler dawn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She never interferes, is all for peace, and her disposition easy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Whiffers then added that he feared a portion of this outrage might be traced to his own forbearing and accommodating disposition. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This signifies the capacity to acquire habits, or develop definite dispositions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The king, who was a man of excellent dispositions, but easily led, had now become a willing disciple of his imperious consort. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The other point is persons modify one another's dispositions only through the special use they make of physical conditions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At eight o'clock Warren was ordered up again, but was so slow in making his dispositions that his orders were frequently repeated, and with emphasis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We discussed his chances, the merits of the other candidates, and the dispositions of the voters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then if the constitutions of States are five, the dispositions of individual minds will also be five? Plato. The Republic.
- It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Our dispositions are not compatible. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The humours and dispositions of the Laputians described. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- They hung about on the flanks of the herd, and became very wise about its habits and dispositions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They developed mental dispositions and traditions and attitudes of thought one to another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Edmund, I consider, from his dispositions and habits, as much more likely to marry early than his brother. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The very difference of our dispositions gave zest to these conversations. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Golz had been up to inspect the dispositions for the attack and was on his way to an observation post. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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