Supine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lying on the back or having the face upward.
  • adj. Having the palm upward. Used of the hand.
  • adj. Marked by or showing lethargy, passivity, or blameworthy indifference. See Synonyms at inactive.
  • adj. Inclined; sloping.
  • n. Grammar A defective Latin verbal noun of the fourth declension, having very limited syntax and only two cases, an accusative in -tum or -sum and an ablative in -tū or -sū. The accusative form is sometimes considered to be the fourth principal part of the Latin verb.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Lying on its back, reclined
  • adj. Sloping or inclined
  • adj. Lethargic; blameworthy indifferent
  • adj. Passive
  • n. A type of verbal noun.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.
  • adj. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
  • adj. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Lying on the back, or with the face upward: opposed to prone.
  • Leaning backward; inclined; sloping: said of localities.
  • Negligent; listless; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive; careless.
  • In botany, lying flat with the face upward, as sometimes a thallus or leaf.
  • n. A part of the Latin verb, really a verbal noun, similar to the English verbals in -ing, with two cases.
  • Supinely.
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  • adj. offering no resistance
  • adj. lying face upward
  • Equivalent
    inactive    passive    unerect   
    Cross Reference
    infinitive    gerund   
    Form
    supination   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    drowsy    careless    thoughtless    inattentive    negligent    indolent    heedless    listless    sloping    inclined   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aline    Cline    Combine    Dine    Heine    Jain    Klein    Kline    Quine    Rhine   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    recumbent    culpable    orthostatic    erect    sluggard    prostrate    reposeful