supine – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
supine
adj.
lying on the back, lying face upward; having the palm upward; passive, indifferent, apathetic
Supine
supine
Adjective
1. lying face upward
(synonym) resupine
(similar) unerect
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
(synonym) resistless, unresisting
(similar) passive, inactive
supino
adj.
supine, lying on the back, lying face upward
Supine
(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.
(a.)
Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
(a.)
Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.
(a.)
Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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