3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Supine \Su*pine"\, 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.
2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun;
sloping; inclined.
If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills
supine. --Dryden.
3. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly
exposed to any temptation. --Woodward.
Syn: Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive;
listless; careless; drowsy. -- {Su*pine"ly}, adv --
{Su*pine"ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Supine \Su"pine\, 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
supine
adj 1: lying face upward [syn: {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}, {unresisting}]
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