Prone

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lying with the front or face downward.
  • adj. Having a tendency; inclined: paper that is prone to yellowing; children who are prone to mischief.
  • ad. In a prone manner: The patient was lying prone on the bed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Lying face downward; prostrate (Wikipedia).
  • adj. Having a downward inclination or slope.
  • adj. Shooting from a lying down position.
  • adj. Predisposed, liable, inclined.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Bending forward; inclined; not erect.
  • adj. Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine.
  • adj. Headlong; running downward or headlong.
  • adj. Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.
  • adj. Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Bending forward with the face downward; inclined; lying flat; not erect.
  • Lying with the face or front downward.
  • Specifically, in anatomy: Lying face downward; stretched at full length on the belly.
  • Lying with the palm downward; pronated, as the hand. In both senses, the opposite of supine.
  • Moving or sloping downward; descending; inclined.
  • Inclined by disposition or natural tendency; propense; disposed: usually in an ill sense.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. lying face downward
  • adj. having a tendency (to); often used in combination
  • Equivalent
    unerect    inclined   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    prone to   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    inclined    headlong    declivous    propense    disposed    proetrate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bastogne    Bayonne    Capone    Cohn    Cologne    Dijon    Goan    Joan    Leone    Malone   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    liable    unable    crosslegged    unstable    apt    prostrate    excitable    susceptible    averse    unwilling