Associations to the word «Supine»
Noun
Adjective
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.
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