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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Supine (0.01146 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Supine.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: supine terlentang
English → English (WordNet) Definition: supine supine adj 1: lying face upward [syn: resupine] 2: 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 [syn: resistless, unresisting]
English → English (gcide) Definition: 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. [1913 Webster] If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless. [1913 Webster] He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation. --Woodward. [1913 Webster] Syn: Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive; listless; careless; drowsy. [1913 Webster] -- Su*pine"ly, adv. -- Su*pine"ness, n. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]

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