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Definition of Supine

1. Adjective. Lying face upward.

2. Adjective. Offering no resistance. "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"

Definition of Supine

1. a. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.

2. 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.

Definition of Supine

1. Adjective. Lying on its back, reclined ¹

2. Adjective. Sloping or inclined ¹

3. Adjective. Lethargic; blameworthy indifferent ¹

4. Adjective. Passive ¹

5. Noun. (grammar) A type of verbal noun. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Supine

1. a Latin verbal noun [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Supine

superwonderful superworried superyacht superyachts superzoom superzooms supes supinate supinated supinates

supinating supination supinations supinator supinators supine (current term) supine tense supinely supineness supinenesses

supines supinity suplex suplexes suppage supparasitation supparasitations suppawn suppawns suppeago

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