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Definition of Prone
1. Adjective. Having a tendency (to); often used in combination. "Failure-prone"
2. Adjective. Lying face downward.
Definition of Prone
1. a. Bending forward; inclined; not erect.
Definition of Prone
1. Adjective. lying face downward; prostrate ¹
2. Adjective. having a downward inclination or slope ¹
3. Adjective. shooting from a lying down position ¹
4. Adjective. predisposed, liable, inclined ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prone
1. lying with the front or face downward [adj] : PRONELY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prone
Literary usage of Prone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Him he struck Through the right shoulder ; prone in dust he fell Groaning his
last ; round whom his comrades fled Appall'd ; such terror had Patroclus ..."
2. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER XLV That we must not believe everyone, and that we are prone to fall in
our words • LORD, be thou my help in trouble, for vain is the help of man.1 ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... tures which the previous native novelists were but too prone to present. Mrs.
GF Cross (Ada Cambridge 1854 ), though not a native of Australia, ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"... (to whose ' Life and Letters' he contributed I an introduction), and prone,
like him, t against current dogmas in religion, po! and medicine. ..."
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