Word.ws English Dictionary

Past tense of predispose

regular verb

The past tense of predispose is predisposed. The past participle is also predisposed.

Forms of predispose

Base form (V1)predispose
Past tense (V2)predisposed
Past participle (V3)predisposed
Present participlepredisposing
Third person singularpredisposes

Predisposed in a sentence

  • This is to say that I'm not predisposed to sticking to Valorant due to its genre.2020 October 21, Ricardo Contreras, “'Valorant' Is the Tactical Shooter I Needed to Get Into Tactical Shooters”, in VICE, archived from…. From the entry skill floor
  • Children and elderly are more predisposed to infectious diseases because of the compromization of the immune system.2009, Larry Holmes, Jr., “Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health”, in Basics of Public Health Core Competencies, Jones and…. From the entry compromisation
  • On the basis of a predisposed constitution, there was a prolonged prodromal stage during which the patient was seemingly depressed and hypochondriacal.1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 129. From the entry prodromal
  • I had been ill at Arequipa, so that I was probably predisposed to the attack of the sorochi, which affected me violently.1943, Paul Bert, Barometric pressure, page 52. From the entry sorochi

Meaning of predispose

  1. verb To make someone susceptible to something (such as a disease).
  2. verb To make someone inclined to something in advance; to influence.

Full definition of predispose

Questions about the past tense of predispose

What is the past tense of predispose?
The past tense of predispose is predisposed.
What is the past participle of predispose?
The past participle of predispose is predisposed.
Is predispose a regular or irregular verb?
Predispose is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: predispose (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “Past tense of predispose.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/predispose. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.