Supine

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Supine \Su*pine"\ (s[-u]*p[imac]n"), 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.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Su*pine"ly}, adv. -- {Su*pine"ness},
          n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Supine \Su"pine\ (s[=u]"p[imac]n), 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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  144 Moby Thesaurus words for "supine":
     Laodicean, Olympian, abject, accepting, accumbent, acquiescent,
     agreeable, aloof, apathetic, assenting, benumbed, blah, blase,
     bored, comatose, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying,
     consenting, couchant, couche, crawling, crouched, dead, debased,
     debilitated, decumbent, depressed, desensitized, detached,
     disinterested, dopey, dormant, draped, droopy, drugged, dull,
     enervated, exanimate, flat, groveling, heartless, heavy,
     hebetudinous, hopeless, idle, in a stupor, inactive, inanimate,
     indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, jaded, knee-high,
     knocked flat, lackadaisical, laid low, languid, languorous, lazy,
     leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lolling, lounging, low,
     low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set,
     low-statured, lumpish, lying, lying down, moribund, motionless,
     neap, nonchalant, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting,
     nonresistive, numb, numbed, obedient, passive, phlegmatic,
     pluckless, pooped, procumbent, prone, prostrate, reclining,
     recumbent, reposing, resigned, resupine, runty, sated, servile,
     short, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, somnolent,
     soporific, spiritless, sprawled, sprawling, spread, spunkless,
     squat, squatty, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stooped, stultified,
     stumpy, stupefied, submissive, subservient, torpid, unassertive,
     uncaring, uncomplaining, unconcerned, unelevated, uninterested,
     unresistant, unresisting, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary,
     withdrawn, world-weary