Found 3 items, similar to Supine.
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Definition: supine
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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.
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2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun;
sloping; inclined.
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If the vine
On rising ground be placed, or hills supine.
--Dryden.
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3. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
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He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly
exposed to any temptation. --Woodward.
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Syn: Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive;
listless; careless; drowsy.
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Su*pine"ly, adv. --
Su*pine"ness,
n.
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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.
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