Word Meanings - WILLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied

Additional info about word: WILLING

1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied wings and willing feet. Milton. shaken in August from the willing boughs. Bryant. 2. Received of choice, or without reluctance; submitted to voluntarily; chosen; desired. are held, with his melodious harmony, In willing chains and sweet captivity. Milton. 3. Spontaneous; self-moved. No spouts of blood run willing from a tree. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WILLING)

• Content
• Full
• satisfied
• pleased
• gratified
• contented
• willing
• resigned
• Ready
• Prompt
• alert
• expeditions
• speedy
• unhesitating
• dexterous
• apt
• skilful
• handy
• expert
• facile
• easy
• opportune
• fitted
• prepared
• disposed
• free
• cheerful
• compliant
• responsive
• quick
• Spontaneous
• Voluntary
• self-generated
• self-originated
• self-evolved
• unbidden
• gratuitous
• Deliberate
• intentional
• optional
• discretional
• unconstrained

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WILLING)

• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk

Related words: (words related to WILLING)

• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• SPONTANEOUS
  1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or
• SKILFUL
  See SKILFUL
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• RESIGNATION
  1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• CONTENTLY
  In a contented manner.
• DISPOSURE
  1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
• DISPOSITED
  Disposed. Glanvill.
• WILLING
  1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied
• DISPOSITOR
  The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer.
• WILLIWAW; WILLYWAW
  A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell.
• DISPOSE
  Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
• DISPOSEDNESS
  The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• SWILLINGS
  See 1
• UNEXPERTLY
  In an unexpert manner.
• UNVOLUNTARY
  Involuntary. Fuller.