English to English
supine
('s/u/p/aI/n
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adjective (a)
- Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.(adjective)source: webster1913
noun (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.(noun)source: webster1913
adjective satellite (s)
- offering no resistance(adj.all)Example:
No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried.
source: wordnet30