Word Meanings - DISPOSITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. Acts vii. 53. The disposition of the work,

Additional info about word: DISPOSITION

1. The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. Acts vii. 53. The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece. Dryden. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Conscious inclination; propension or propensity. How stands your disposition to be married Shak. 5. Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind. "A man of turbulent disposition." Hallam. "He is of a very melancholy disposition." Shak. His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. Strype. 6. Mood; humor. As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. Shak. Syn. -- Disposal; adjustment; regulation; arrangement; distribution; order; method; adaptation; inclination; propensity; bestowment; alienation; character; temper; mood. -- Disposition, Character, Temper. Disposition is the natural humor of a person, the predominating quality of his character, the constitutional habit of his mind. Character is this disposition influenced by motive, training, and will. Temper is a quality of the fiber of character, and is displayed chiefly when the emotions, especially the passions, are aroused.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISPOSITION)

• Appetite
• Passion
• desire
• propensity
• proclivity
• inclination
• propension
• appetency
• want
• craving
• disposition
• tendency
• proneness
• Array
• Arrangement
• order
• sight
• exhibition
• show
• parade
• Attraction
• Inducement
• influence
• adduction
• charm
• beauty
• allurement
• Bent
• Inclination
• angle
• direction
• bias
• determination
• intention
• prepossession
• predilection
• turn
• leaning
• Character
• Symbol
• letter
• nature
• type
• genius
• temperament
• cast
• estimation
• repute
• office
• reputation
• part
• capacity
• class
• sort
• stamp
• kind
• quality
• species
• sign
• tone
• mark
• figure
• record

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISPOSITION)

• Disarray
• disarrange
• confuse
• jumble
• divest
• denude
• strip
• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress

Related words: (words related to DISPOSITION)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• ADDUCTION
  The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its (more info) 1. The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.
• LEANING
  The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SIGHTLY
  1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
• SYMBOLISM
  The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• UNTANGLE
  To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.