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indisposé

French, adjective

indisposé is spelled I-N-D-I-S-P-O-S-É (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 72,190th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Indisposé is a French adjective meaning “unwell, indisposed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of indisposer. Without its accent, indispose is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est affecté d’une indisposition”.

What does indisposé mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    unwell, indisposed

  2. 2

    on one's period, at that time of the month

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of indisposer

verb

as indispose
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui est affecté d’une indisposition. 2. Se dit par litote d'une femme qui a ses règles.

adjective: 1. Féminin singulier de indispos.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of indisposé

  • indisposée feminine
  • indisposés masculine plural
  • indisposées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to indisposé

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is indisposé in French?

indisposé appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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