supine

supine is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.
2. adjective. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
3. adjective. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
4. noun. 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.
5. adjective. offering no resistance- Theodore Roosevelt

   "resistless hostages"

   "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"

   Synonyms: resistless, unresisting

6. adjective. lying face upward

   Synonyms: resupine

Synonyms

resistless, unresisting, resupine

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in supine:

pineus, puisne

Common word forms

supines, supinely, supineness

Words from these letters

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