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best-disposed

best-disposed is the superlative form of well-disposed.

Meaning of well-disposed

Adjective

well-disposed (comparative better-disposed or more well-disposed, superlative best-disposed or most well-disposed)

  1. friendly and sympathetic
    • A memorial inscription on Long Melford church reads, 'the work of well-disposed men'. It refers to the wool merchants who contributed to its building in the 1490s.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 269

Questions about best-disposed

What is best-disposed the superlative form of?
Best-disposed is the superlative form of well-disposed.

Words near best-disposed in the dictionary

  1. best-case scenario
  2. best-case scenarios
  3. best-connected
  4. best-defined
  5. best-developed
  6. best-disposed
  7. best-formed
  8. best-groomed
  9. best-grounded
  10. best-hearted
  11. best-humored

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