[syn: resistless, supine, unresisting]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Supine \Su*pine"\ (s[-u]*p[imac]n"), a. [L. supinus, akin to sub
under, super above. Cf. Sub-, Super-.]
1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to
prone.
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2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun;
sloping; inclined.
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If the vine
On rising ground be placed, or hills supine.
--Dryden.
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3. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
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He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly
exposed to any temptation. --Woodward.
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Syn: Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive;
listless; careless; drowsy.
[1913 Webster] -- Su*pine"ly, adv. -- Su*pine"ness,
n.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Supine \Su"pine\ (s[=u]"p[imac]n), n. [L. supinum (sc. verbum),
from supinus bent or thrown backward, perhaps so called
because, although furnished with substantive case endings, it
rests or falls back, as it were, on the verb: cf. F. supin.]
(Lat. Gram.)
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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
supine
adj 1: lying face upward [syn: supine, resupine]
2: 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 [syn: resistless, supine, unresisting]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
144 Moby Thesaurus words for "supine":
Laodicean, Olympian, abject, accepting, accumbent, acquiescent,
agreeable, aloof, apathetic, assenting, benumbed, blah, blase,
bored, comatose, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying,
consenting, couchant, couche, crawling, crouched, dead, debased,
debilitated, decumbent, depressed, desensitized, detached,
disinterested, dopey, dormant, draped, droopy, drugged, dull,
enervated, exanimate, flat, groveling, heartless, heavy,
hebetudinous, hopeless, idle, in a stupor, inactive, inanimate,
indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, jaded, knee-high,
knocked flat, lackadaisical, laid low, languid, languorous, lazy,
leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lolling, lounging, low,
low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set,
low-statured, lumpish, lying, lying down, moribund, motionless,
neap, nonchalant, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting,
nonresistive, numb, numbed, obedient, passive, phlegmatic,
pluckless, pooped, procumbent, prone, prostrate, reclining,
recumbent, reposing, resigned, resupine, runty, sated, servile,
short, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, somnolent,
soporific, spiritless, sprawled, sprawling, spread, spunkless,
squat, squatty, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stooped, stultified,
stumpy, stupefied, submissive, subservient, torpid, unassertive,
uncaring, uncomplaining, unconcerned, unelevated, uninterested,
unresistant, unresisting, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary,
withdrawn, world-weary