'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]