Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Sloping, slanting, or leaning.
  • adjective Having a preference, disposition, or tendency.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • past participle Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment.
  • past participle (Math.) Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane.
  • past participle (Bot.) Bent out of a perpendicular position, or into a curve with the convex side uppermost.
  • past participle (Mech.), (Railroad & Canal) An inclined portion of track, on which trains or boats are raised or lowered from one level to another.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.
  • adjective Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of incline.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having made preparations
  • adjective (often followed by `to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency
  • adjective at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position

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Examples

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  • I have worked hard for over 35 years to achieve my "richness" (50k+) and while I don't mind at all my tax dollars helping the less fortunate ... helping the less inclined is just about more than my stomach can stand any longer.

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  • Notorious Federast (with an ‘F’, people, with an ‘F’) Peter Mandelson, or “Mandy” to those so inclined, is to quit the EU Commission to avoid giving Gordon Brown the pleasure of sacking him.

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  • Notorious Federast (with an ‘F’, people, with an ‘F’) Peter Mandelson, or “Mandy” to those so inclined, is to quit the EU Commission to avoid giving Gordon Brown the pleasure of sacking him.

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  • The Francolin inclined to her speech, seeking ease for himself, and plucked out his wing-feathers, one by one, in accordance with the rede approved of by the Tortoise; then he took up his abode with them and contented himself with the little ease and transient pleasure he enjoyed.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • When she ended her verse, she looked at Sharrkan and found him lost to existence, and he lay for a while stretched at full length and prone among the maidens. 191 Then he revived and, remembering the songs, again inclined to mirth and merriment; and the twain returned to their wine and wassail, and continued their playing and toying, their pastime and pleasure till day ceased illuminating and night drooped her wing.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The son of an 82nd Airborne paratrooper who died at Normandy, a carefully dressed young man with a firm handshake, given to flexing the muscles of his jaw, Jack Williams was perhaps inclined from the outset to believe the war "worthwhile."

    Soldiers of Misfortune 1978

  • The son of an 82nd Airborne paratrooper who died at Normandy, a carefully dressed young man with a firm handshake, given to flexing the muscles of his jaw, Jack Williams was perhaps inclined from the outset to believe the war "worthwhile."

    Soldiers of Misfortune 1978

  • The extreme reasonableness of the terms inclined Mavis to decide on going to Mrs Gowler's.

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