supine

Word Origin & History

c.1500, from Latin supinus "turned or thrown backwards, inactive, indolent," related to sub "under" (see sub-). The grammatical use for "Latin verbal noun formed from the past participle stem" is from Late Latin supinum verbum "supine verb," perhaps so called because, though furnished with a noun case ending, it "falls back" on the verb.

Example Sentences for supine

For some time after she had been seized by Roderic, she had remained unconscious and supine.

Supine, routed we rest; and above all, above the universe, is the silence of the Shadow.

He began to sink slowly back into the blankets, supine and inert.

Erect or supine, these colossal statues were strewn all over the island.

One may be melancholy by the sea, but never morbid or supine.

The supine position, as in the adult, is imposed only at night.

In this supine, hopeless state, the priest could in no way prevail on him.

She was right, because she could not see beneath the rags the supine form of a man.

Thereupon the supine cousins demanded to share in what had so been won.

He sang of melancholy, but he was never reconciled to supine resignation.

supine

listless

lymphatic

powerless

procumbent

prone

prostrate

recumbent

slack

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