supine 音标拼音: [səp'ɑɪn] [s'upɑɪn]
a . 仰卧的,掌心向上的,懒散的
仰卧的,掌心向上的,懒散的
supine adj 1 :
lying face upward [
synonym : {
supine }, {
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 [
synonym : {
resistless }, {
supine }, {
unresisting }]
Supine \
Su *
pine "\ (
s [-
u ]*
p [
imac ]
n "),
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 }.
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
Leaning backward ,
or inclining with exposure to the sun ;
sloping ;
inclined .
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If the vine On rising ground be placed ,
or hills supine .
--
Dryden .
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3 .
Negligent ;
heedless ;
indolent ;
listless .
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He became pusillanimous and supine ,
and openly exposed to any temptation . --
Woodward .
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Syn :
Negligent ;
heedless ;
indolent ;
thoughtless ;
inattentive ;
listless ;
careless ;
drowsy .
[
1913 Webster ] -- {
Su *
pine "
ly },
adv . -- {
Su *
pine "
ness },
n .
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Supine \
Su "
pine \ (
s [=
u ]"
p [
imac ]
n ),
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 .
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1913 Webster ]
144 Moby Thesaurus words for "
supine ":
Laodicean ,
Olympian ,
abject ,
accepting ,
accumbent ,
acquiescent ,
agreeable ,
aloof ,
apathetic ,
assenting ,
benumbed ,
blah ,
blase ,
bored ,
comatose ,
complaisant ,
compliable ,
compliant ,
complying ,
consenting ,
couchant ,
couche ,
crawling ,
crouched ,
dead ,
debased ,
debilitated ,
decumbent ,
depressed ,
desensitized ,
detached ,
disinterested ,
dopey ,
dormant ,
draped ,
droopy ,
drugged ,
dull ,
enervated ,
exanimate ,
flat ,
groveling ,
heartless ,
heavy ,
hebetudinous ,
hopeless ,
idle ,
in a stupor ,
inactive ,
inanimate ,
indifferent ,
indolent ,
inert ,
insouciant ,
jaded ,
knee -
high ,
knocked flat ,
lackadaisical ,
laid low ,
languid ,
languorous ,
lazy ,
leaden ,
lethargic ,
lifeless ,
listless ,
lolling ,
lounging ,
low ,
low -
built ,
low -
hung ,
low -
level ,
low -
leveled ,
low -
lying ,
low -
set ,
low -
statured ,
lumpish ,
lying ,
lying down ,
moribund ,
motionless ,
neap ,
nonchalant ,
nondissenting ,
nonresistant ,
nonresisting ,
nonresistive ,
numb ,
numbed ,
obedient ,
passive ,
phlegmatic ,
pluckless ,
pooped ,
procumbent ,
prone ,
prostrate ,
reclining ,
recumbent ,
reposing ,
resigned ,
resupine ,
runty ,
sated ,
servile ,
short ,
slack ,
sleepy ,
slothful ,
slow ,
sluggish ,
somnolent ,
soporific ,
spiritless ,
sprawled ,
sprawling ,
spread ,
spunkless ,
squat ,
squatty ,
stagnant ,
stagnating ,
stoic ,
stooped ,
stultified ,
stumpy ,
stupefied ,
submissive ,
subservient ,
torpid ,
unassertive ,
uncaring ,
uncomplaining ,
unconcerned ,
unelevated ,
uninterested ,
unresistant ,
unresisting ,
vegetable ,
vegetative ,
wan ,
weary ,
withdrawn ,
world -
weary
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