- having an inclination; specif.,
- at or on a slant; sloping; leaning
- disposed; willing; tending
- forming an angle with another line, plane, or body
An inclined street in San Francisco.
- Inclined is defined as something that forms an angle due to its slope or tilt.
An example of something that is inclined is a ladder leaning up against a home that forms a triangle.
- To be inclined means to tend towards something or to be likely to do a particular thing or choose a specific outcome.
When you feel like you should agree with your friend's opinion, this is an example of a situation where you are inclined to agree with your friend.
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adjective
- Sloping, slanting, or leaning.
- Having a preference, disposition, or tendency: lobbied the positively inclined senators to push for the bill's passage.
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Adjective
(comparative more inclined, superlative most inclined)
- At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.
- The take-off ramp was inclined at 20 degrees.
- Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition.
- I am inclined to believe you.
Verb
- simple past tense and past participle of incline
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Sentence Examples
- She was inclined to decline his offer.
- Of a confiding nature, he was inclined to judge others by himself.
- I guess he wasn't the ideal patient so the doctors weren't inclined to put up much of a fuss.
- It had a vertical boiler, and was carried on four wheels all coupled, the two cylinders being placed in an inclined position and having a bore of about 6 in.
- The lower incisors are partially inclined forwards, compressed and tapering, bevelled at the ends.
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Words near inclined in the dictionary
- inclined
- inclinator
- inclinators
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