About The Word Supine
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Supine
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What's The Definition Of Supine?
[adj] lying face upward
[adj] 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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Supine: inactive | passive | resistless | resupine | unerect | unresisting Related Terms | Find terms related to Supine: See Also | Supine In Webster's Dictionary \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. --Dryden.
3. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly
exposed to any temptation. --Woodward.
Syn: Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive;
listless; careless; drowsy. -- {Su*pine"ly}, adv. --
{Su*pine"ness}, n.
\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. |
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