adjective. Lying on the back or having the face upward.

adjective. Having the palm upward. Used of the hand.

adjective. Marked by or showing lethargy, passivity, or blameworthy indifference.

noun. In Latin grammar, a verbal noun used in only a few syntactic constructions and occurring in only two cases, an accusative in -tum or -sum and an ablative in -tū or -sū. The accusative form of the supine is sometimes considered to be the fourth principal part of the Latin verb.

Lying on the back, or with the face upward: opposed to prone.

Leaning backward; inclined; sloping: said of localities.

Negligent; listless; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive; careless.

In botany, lying flat with the face upward, as sometimes a thallus or leaf.

noun. A part of the Latin verb, really a verbal noun, similar to the English verbals in -ing, with two cases.

Supinely.

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.

adjective. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.

adjective. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.

adjective. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.

adjective. Lying on its back, reclined

adjective. Sloping or inclined

adjective. Lethargic; blameworthy indifferent

adjective. Passive

noun. A type of verbal noun.

adjective. offering no resistance

adjective. lying face upward

"Still, you've got to ask yourself – how supine is a journalist who permits himself to be TOLD if he can or can't write down something he is told?"

gerund  infinitive  

inactive  passive  unerect  

supination  

Aline  Cline  Combine  Dine  Heine  

culpable  erect  orthostatic  prostrate  recumbent  

Laodicean  Olympian  abject  accepting  accumbent