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Meaning of 'supine'
Meaning of 'supine' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Supine 
[ a.]
- Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to
prone. [ a.]- 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. [ n.]Meaning of 'supine' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. supine [ s]
[ s]Meaning (1):
- passive as a result of indolence or indifference
- 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
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