Associations to the word «Supine»

Wiktionary

SUPINE, adjective. Lying on its back, reclined
SUPINE, adjective. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
SUPINE, adjective. Negligent; heedless; listless; lethargic; indifferent.
SUPINE, adjective. Passive
SUPINE, noun. (grammar) A type of verbal noun.
SUPINE TENSE, noun. (Swedish grammar) A verb form, used together with a form of the auxiliary verb ha (="have") to create the perfect and pluperfect tenses.

Dictionary definition

SUPINE, adjective. Lying face upward.
SUPINE, 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats