Supine

[Su*pineĀ·]

You can be described as supine when you're lying face up for example, your favorite yoga poses might be the supine ones. Someone who is very passive or lethargic could also be called supine for instance, someone might be supine in the face of continuous threats and insults.

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Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.

Adjective S.
offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt

Adjective S.
lying face upward


a.
Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.

a.
Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.

a.
Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.

n.
A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.


Supine

Su*pine" , a. [L. supinus, akin to sub under, super above. Cf. Sub-, Super-.] 1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone. 2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine.
3. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation.
Syn. -- Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive; listless; careless; drowsy. -- Su*pine"ly, adv. -- Su*pine"ness, n.

Supine

Su"pine , n. [L. supinum (sc. verbum), from supinus bent or thrown backward, perhaps so called because, although furnished with substantive case endings, it rests or falls back, as it were, on the verb: cf. F. supin.] (Lat. Gram.) A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.

Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.

A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.

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