Antonyms for predisposedpre·dis·posed

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1. predisposedadjective

   made susceptible

   "because of conditions in the mine, miners are predisposed to lung disease"

   Antonyms:
   unsusceptible, insusceptible

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1. Scott Stapp:

   Mental health issues run on both sides of my family, we’re pretty certain I was innately predisposed to it and that it was going to take a hold through my DNA whenever that time was coming.

2. Paul Clement:

   He was very good with audiences that weren't predisposed to like him, he was incredibly disarming and charming in his own way.

3. Susan Sarandon:

   I have to say I was predisposed against religion, i brought all that baggage to dinner. But she was very accessible. She has a bit of wonder.

4. Rebecca Ryan:

   There probably is reverse causation, but one of the things that some of the longitudinal research suggests is that when you look at kids over time -- so controlling for baseline rates of misbehavior -- children who are disciplined with corporal punishment versus those who are not, who have the same kinds of behavior problems, show increases in behavior problems over time in a way that children who aren't disciplined that way don't, so yes, there is probably some truth to the idea that kids who are predisposed to misbehavior for whatever reason are more likely to be spanked by parents who use that form of discipline than kids who are less likely to misbehave for whatever reason.

5. Carl Lotus Becker:

   Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.

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