Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Unwilling or reluctant: They were usually disinclined to socialize.
Wiktionary
- adj. not inclined; having a disinclination; being unwilling
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of disincline.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval
Examples
“Cornyn said he is "disinclined" to support any tax increases as part of a defict reduction package.”
The Washington Post: Dem: I'll challenge Pelosi for top leadership slot
“As for his own future, Mr. Cooper said he's received a number of calls urging him to challenge State Senator Carl Marcellino, but said he's "disinclined" toward such a run.”
“It became kind of disinclined to really make any sacrifices.”
“And a CIA analyst with direct knowledge of the case said that the returned scientist had become the centre of a propaganda war and that the agency was "disinclined" to remain silent while Tehran scored points against Washington.”
“Outgoing Council President Scott Peters said he doesn't think San Diego faces imminent bankruptcy, and is "disinclined" to support Aguirre's recommendation to hire the law firm.”
“(Said plan honestly doesn't sound that bad to me, but I'm just kind of disinclined to trust the dude) Pickens was just another obscure billionaire who looked like a heavily made-up Tom Wilkinson and was an ardent Bush Ranger up until a few years ago, when his debut in the public consciousness - long before he realized that all cars should run on clean national gas (he knows a guy who can get you a deal) (a guy named T. Boone Pickens, be-otch) and that wind farms (cf previous parentheses) were the way to go - came via his donation of”
“A stunning number of slaves agreed with their masters that they were biologically disinclined to work.”
“The bill was intended to give the Obama Administration leverage (which the White House seems quite disinclined to use) in continuing talks with Beijing about China's manipulation of its currency.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Kuttner: Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed
“And someone on that walk may be disinclined, if not unable, to make the distinction between the Yalie whose father went to Yale and the Yalie whose father was a dry cleaner.”
The Huffington Post: Bradley W. Bloch: Yalie Perplexed by Anti-Yale Sentiment
“Kelly keeps a Facebook page, but explains that he is disinclined to post regular bulletins on his wife's progress or second-guess medical opinion.”
The Guardian: Gabrielle Giffords's astronaut husband prepares for space mission
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘disinclined’.
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Do More Than Hate
A list of words for describing dislike, reproval or criticism.
belabor, malevolent, reprobate, ire, anger, rage, fury, choler, indignance, grame, scorn, geck and 23 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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words
absquatulate, conceivable, daylight, fuselage, necromancy, obsequiously, orotund, pusillanimous, tooth, abhor, abide, abscissa and 111 more...
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New GRE Preparation List
All the words which I encounter during my GRE studies. :)
rhetoric, errant, arrant, artless, artful, ephemeral, libel, rhapsody, cloy, conjecture, relegate, aberrant and 927 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate, amalgam and 1781 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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5-1
Hecko, words! Thanks for staying with me. :-)
avenue, viscous, zeroth, usher, scarcely, viability, snout, sole, purify, riotous, menace, moist and 364 more...
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DisenDat
disengage, disenfranchise, disentangle, disenchant, disenable, disenroll, disentitle, disendow, disentail, disencumber, disentwine, disentrance and 23 more...
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Adjectives
impressive growth, outstanding, significant, -----------------..., reluctant - вынуж..., unwilling, averse, disinclined, pithy - содержате..., terse (о стиле: с..., concise, -----------------... and 2 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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just words that I like
elegy, ostensibly, foray, purposiveness, parsimony, sanguine, discombobulate, conundrum, agglutinate, vociferous, omphaloskepsis, disputatious and 3 more...
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