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. | |
3. | Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless. | |
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 |