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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | willing |
| Synonyms: | eager, game, inclined, minded, prepared, ready |
| Main Entry: | envious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | jealous, resentful |
| Synonyms: | appetent, aspiring, begrudging, coveting, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, distrustful, fain, grasping, greedy, green with envy, green-eyed, grudging, hankering, invidious, jaundiced, longing for, malicious, spiteful, suspicious, umbrageous, watchful, wishful, yearning |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, confident, content, kind, pleased, unenvious |
| Main Entry: | predisposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | willing, inclined |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, amenable, biased, eager, enthusiastic, fain, given to, liable, likely, minded, partial, prone, ready, subject, susceptible |
| Antonyms: | disagreeing, disinclined, unprepared, unwilling |
| Main Entry: | prone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liable, likely |
| Synonyms: | apt, bent, devoted, disposed, exposed, fain, given, inclined, minded, open, predisposed, ready, sensitive, subject, susceptible, tending, willing |
| Notes: | apt is for general probabilities, likely is for specific probabilities; liable and prone indicate a probability arising as a regrettable consequence prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is also true for prostrate, but only in expressing adoration or begging for protection; supine is lying on your back supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while recumbent is lying flat in any position |
| Antonyms: | improbably, unlikely |
| Main Entry: | ready |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | willing, inclined |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, apt, ardent, disposed, eager, enthusiastic, fain, game, game for, glad, happy, keen, minded, predisposed, prompt, prone, psyched up, wired, zealous |
| Antonyms: | disinclined, unprepared, unwilling |
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