adjective [after verb; + to infinitive] FORMAL
not willing:
After their rude attitude in the past, we feel distinctly indisposed to help them now.
indisposition Show phonetics
noun [U + to infinitive] FORMAL
an indisposition to cooperate
━━ a. 気分が悪い, （軽い）病気の; …する気がない ((to do)); 気が向かない ((for)).
Jane Austen
Emma
CHAPTER II
Mr. Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family, which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property. He had received a good education, but, on succeeding early in life to a small independence, had become indisposed for any of the more homely pursuits in which his brothers were engaged, and had satisfied an active, cheerful mind and social temper by entering into the militia of his county, then embodied.
homely (PLAIN) UK Show phonetics
adjective (US homey)
plain or ordinary, but pleasant:
The hotel was homely and comfortable.
homely (UGLY) Show phonetics
adjective US DISAPPROVING
describes a person who is unattractive
indisposed (ILL) Show phonetics
adjective FORMAL
ill, especially in a way that makes you unable to do something:
Sheila Jones is indisposed, so the part of the Countess will be sung tonight by Della Drake.
indisposition Show phonetics
noun [C or U] FORMAL
when someone is indisposed
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
Questions Are Raised About Firing of Soprano
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
In the ego-driven arena of opera, “indisposed” is the main euphemism used when a singer is replaced, whatever the real reason.
embody Show phonetics
verb [T] FORMAL
1 to represent a quality or an idea exactly:
She embodied good sportsmanship on the playing field.
2 to include as part of something:
Kennett embodied in one man an unusual range of science, music and religion.
embodiment Show phonetics
noun
the embodiment of sth someone or something that represents a quality or an idea exactly:
He was the embodiment of the English gentleman.
She was portrayed in the papers as the embodiment of evil.
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
━━ vt. 形体を与える, 有形にする; 具体化する, 具体的に表現する ((in)); 一体にする, 統合する, 包含する.
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