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UK
/ɪnklˈaɪnd/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈkɫaɪnd/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈkɫaɪnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having made preparations
prepared to take risks -
(often followed by `to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency
inclined to be moody
wasn't inclined to believe the excuse -
at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position
an inclined plane
How To Use inclined In A Sentence
- I am inclined to think, old boy, that there is a good deal of what they call the chump about me. Old Ebenezer
- After a time, however, they began to think that he was what they called too “viewy,” too much inclined to paradox, too wild. The Adventure of Living
- If it has attractive art and nice looking parts I'm much more inclined to give it a try.
- He's inclined to spit when he talks quickly.
- But the slave, perceiving that the zamorin seemed inclined to deal favourably with them, went to the cady or chief priest of the Mahometans, and told him all that he had said to the zamorin, adding that the two Christians had disclosed all their secrets to the Portuguese. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
- The finely detailed, louvred, inclined plane presenting an alternative to the typical suburban facades. NSW Architecture Awards Announced: Gorgeous Oz-chitecture | Inhabitat
- He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
- The twelfth, _bayoguin_, signified a "cotquean," a man whose nature inclined toward that of a woman. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
- In manner he was a dapper ironist, soft-voiced and accepting of the curious turns that fate was inclined to take. We Shall Not See His Like Again
- To anyone inclined to political cynicism, I would urge you to read this book. Times, Sunday Times