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Meaning of 'supine' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Supine [ a.]
- Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.
- Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
- Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
2 . Supine [ n.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'supine' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . supine [ s]
Meaning (1):
- passive as a result of indolence or indifference
Example in sentence:
  • No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried

Nearby Words:

sup supawn supe super super- superable superabound superabundance superabundant superacidulated

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