'Prone' definitions:
Definition of 'prone'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having a tendency (to); often used in combination; "a child prone to mischief"; "failure-prone"
adjective
Lying face downward [syn: prone, prostrate]
Definition of 'Prone'
From: GCIDE
- Prone \Prone\, a. [L. pronus, akin to Gr. ?, ?, Skr. pravana sloping, inclined, and also to L. pro forward, for. See Pro-.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Bending forward; inclined; not erect. [1913 Webster]
- Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine. [1913 Webster]
- Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Headlong; running downward or headlong. "Down thither prone in flight." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level. [1913 Webster]
- Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land. --Blackmore. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to. "Prone to mischief." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prone'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accumbent,
- acquiescent,
- agreeable,
- alacritous,
- amenable,
- answerable for,
- apt,
- apt to,
- ardent,
- bent,
- calculated to,
- capable of,
- compliant,
- consenting,
- content,
- cooperative,
- couchant,
- couche,
- crawling,
- crouched,
- crouching,
- debased,
- decumbent,
- deferential,
- dependent on,
- depressed,
- disposed,
- disposed to,
- dispositioned,
- docile,
- draped,
- eager,
- enthusiastic,
- exposed,
- exposed to,
- fain,
- favorable,
- favorably disposed,
- favorably inclined,
- flat,
- forward,
- game,
- given,
- given to,
- groveling,
- horizontal,
- in danger of,
- in the mind,
- in the mood,
- incident to,
- inclined,
- inclined to,
- knee-high,
- knocked flat,
- laid low,
- leaning,
- level,
- liable,
- liable to,
- likely,
- likely to,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- low,
- low-built,
- low-hung,
- low-level,
- low-leveled,
- low-lying,
- low-set,
- low-statured,
- lying,
- lying down,
- minded,
- minded to,
- naked to,
- neap,
- obeisant,
- obliged to,
- obnoxious,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- open,
- open to,
- pliant,
- predisposed,
- predisposed to,
- procumbent,
- prompt,
- prone to,
- prostrate,
- quick,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- ready for,
- ready to,
- receptive,
- reclining,
- recumbent,
- reposing,
- responsible for,
- responsive,
- resupine,
- runty,
- sensitive,
- servile,
- short,
- sprawled,
- sprawling,
- spread,
- squat,
- squatty,
- standing to,
- stooped,
- stumpy,
- subject,
- subject to,
- subservient,
- supine,
- susceptible,
- susceptive to,
- tending,
- tractable,
- unelevated,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined,
- willed,
- willing,
- willinghearted,
- within range of,
- zealous