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Princeton's WordNet

  1. predisposedadjective

    made susceptible

    "because of conditions in the mine, miners are predisposed to lung disease"

Wiktionary

  1. predisposedadjective

    Inclined.

  2. predisposedadjective

    Made susceptible to.

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  1. predisposed

    Predisposed refers to being inclined or naturally susceptible to something in advance due to one's genetic, habitual or psychological characteristics. It often means having a tendency or an increased likelihood to develop a particular disease, condition, behavior, or state based on one's genetic makeup or lifestyle factors.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Predisposed

    of Predispose

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of predisposed in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of predisposed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of predisposed in a Sentence

  1. Susan Sarandon:

    I have to say I was predisposed against religion, i brought all that baggage to dinner. But she was very accessible. She has a bit of wonder.

  2. Tom Kupfer:

    Smallpox alone killed millions of millions of people, so if a human ancestor was predisposed to attend to those bumps, to dislike them and stay away from them.

  3. Thomas Sedlak:

    For people predisposed to heart disease, we know that changes in diet and exercise can help stave off the disease, but there isn’t anything like that for severe mental disorders yet.

  4. Rebecca Ryan:

    There probably is reverse causation, but one of the things that some of the longitudinal research suggests is that when you look at kids over time -- so controlling for baseline rates of misbehavior -- children who are disciplined with corporal punishment versus those who are not, who have the same kinds of behavior problems, show increases in behavior problems over time in a way that children who aren't disciplined that way don't, so yes, there is probably some truth to the idea that kids who are predisposed to misbehavior for whatever reason are more likely to be spanked by parents who use that form of discipline than kids who are less likely to misbehave for whatever reason.

  5. Paul Clement:

    He was very good with audiences that weren't predisposed to like him, he was incredibly disarming and charming in his own way.

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