well-disposed

Speech parts

1. well-disposed - Adjective

2. well-disposed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile

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Alternative names

well disposed

Synonyms

friendly good fraternal brotherly kind warm happy favorable sympathetic helpful intimate pleasant receptive outgoing benign
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Antonyms

black crabby cold distant hostile adverse
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Examples

a government friendly to our interests Source: Internet

well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States Source: Internet

a relaxed environment well-disposed to the appreciation of good food and fine wine Source: Internet

Ferdinand was a proponent of the Catholic Counter-Reformation and not likely to be well-disposed to Protestantism or Bohemian freedoms. Source: Internet

Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, p. 375. During this period, the Normans, who remembered their origins as a Scandinavian people, were well-disposed to their Danish cousins who, occasionally returning from a raid on England, sought port in Normandy. Source: Internet

Trajan's wife and his friend Licinius Sura were well-disposed towards Hadrian, and he may well have owed his succession to them. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

well-designed well-developed well-directed well-disposed to well-disposed towards well-disposedness