'Supine' definitions:
Definition of 'supine'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lying face upward [syn: supine, resupine]
adjective
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, supine, unresisting]
Definition of 'Supine'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Supine'
From: 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. [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]
Synonyms of 'supine'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Laodicean,
- 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,
- Olympian,
- 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