Supine

a.	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.
n.	1.	(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.

Adj.	1.	supine - lying face upward Synonyms: resupine
	2.	supine - 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 Synonyms: unresisting, resistless

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