Category:Supine

Su*pine", a. Etym: [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.

Supine Su"pine, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.