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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
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- 1adjective
Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.
- 2adjective
Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
- 3adjective
Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
- 4noun
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.
- 5adjective
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"
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- 6adjective
lying face upward
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