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supine 音標拼音: [səp'ɑɪn] [s'upɑɪn] a. 仰臥的,掌心向上的,懶散的 仰臥的,掌心向上的,懶散的 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}. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. [ 1913 Webster] If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless. [ 1913 Webster] He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation. -- Woodward. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive; listless; careless; drowsy. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Su* pine" ly}, adv. -- { Su* pine" ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 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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