Meaning of 'supine'
Meaning of 'supine' (Webster Dictionary)
- 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. - 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.
- Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
- Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless. - 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)
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