DISPOSITION Synonyms

• your usual mood

• excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly)

• an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys

• a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways

• the arrangement of the body and its limbs

• a theatrical pose created for effect

• position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion)

• an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

• a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something

• the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions

• an actor's portrayal of someone in a play

• a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)

• good repute

• a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability

• a written symbol that is used to represent speech

• (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes

• engrave or inscribe characters on

• a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations

• a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

• the prevailing psychological state

• verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

• the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized

• a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe

• the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.

• the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions

• a particular type of thing

• the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual

• a person of considerable prominence

• that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason

• (Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul

• the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

• the vital principle or animating force within living things

• the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

• a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character

• any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings

• the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)

• the intended meaning of a communication

• animation and energy in action or expression

• an inclination or tendency of a certain kind

• infuse with spirit

• a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)

• the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another

• the act of distributing something to designated places or persons

• (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

• an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)

• the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

• document effecting a property transfer

• the transmission of information

• something that serves as a means of transportation

• act of transferring property title from one person to another

• the act of moving something from one location to another

• the power to use something or someone

• a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)

• the act or means of getting rid of something

• a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage

• an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others

• an inclination to do something

• a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect

• a general direction in which something tends to move