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Inclined   /ɪnklˈaɪnd/   Listen
Inclined

adjective
1.
(often followed by 'to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency.  "Inclined to be moody"  Antonym: disinclined.
2.
At an angle to the horizontal or vertical position.  Antonyms: horizontal, vertical.
3.
Having made preparations.  Synonyms: disposed, fain, prepared.


Incline

verb
(past & past part. inclined; pres. part. inclining)
1.
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined.  Synonyms: be given, lean, run, tend.  "These dresses run small" , "He inclined to corpulence"
2.
Bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well.
3.
Lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow.
4.
Be at an angle.  Synonyms: pitch, slope.
5.
Feel favorably disposed or willing.
6.
Make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief.  Synonym: dispose.  Antonym: indispose.



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"Inclined" Quotes from Famous Books



... disagreeable to me it was generally to please Monsieur, whose favourites and my enemies did all they could to embroil me with him, and through his means with the King, that I might not be able to denounce them. It was natural enough that the King should be more inclined to please his brother than me; but when Monsieur's conscience reproached him, he repented of having done me ill offices with the King, and he confessed this to the King; His Majesty would then come to us again immediately, notwithstanding the ...
— The Memoirs of the Louis XIV. and The Regency, Complete • Elizabeth-Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans
... of an indigenous dark-haired people to a race of blonde invaders.{22} Another curious requirement—in the Isle of Man and Northumberland—is that the "first-foot" shall not be flat-footed: he should be a person with a high-arched instep, a foot that "water runs under." Sir John Rhys is inclined to connect this also with some racial contrast. He remarks, by way of illustration, that English shoes do not as a rule fit Welsh feet, being made too low ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles
... of the class had prepared the story of "The Fisherman and his Wife." The first girl called on was evidently inclined to feel that it was rather a foolish story. She tried to tell it well, but there were parts of it which produced in her the touch of shamefacedness to which I ...
— Stories to Tell to Children • Sara Cone Bryant
... inclined to resent the presence of these two, but the caress of the soft, warm hand checked any hostile demonstration beyond a whine, ...
— The Hound From The North • Ridgwell Cullum
... laid his hand upon her arm, and she and Taquisara led him in together, the old couple following, and looking at each other in silence from time to time. Through the dark, inclined way, they all went up slowly into the courtyard and under the low door, dark even on that summer's afternoon, slowly, stopping at every dozen paces and then moving on again. Taquisara almost carrying his friend with his right arm, while Veronica steadied him on the ...
— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford


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