Supine

Definition: Supine

Supine

Adjective

1. Lying face upward.

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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "supine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Supine

Horizontality

Recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent; lying; Verb: prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant.

Inactivity

Indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish; exanimate, soulless; listless; drony, dronish; lazy as Ludlam's dog.

Insensibility

Apathetic; leuco-, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific; sleepy; (inactive); languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken.

Inversion

Adjective: inverted; Verb: wrong side out, wrong side up; inside out, upside down; bottom upwards, keel upwards; supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous.

Neglect

Supine; (inactive); inattentive; insouciant; (indifferent); imprudent, reckless; slovenly; (disorderly), (dirty); inexact; (erroneous); improvident.

Crosswords: Supine

Dutch (supine).

Music

• Supine on the Astroturf Ep (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

A national campaign (the "Back to Sleep" campaign) was launched in 1994 to promote supine positioning during sleep. (references)

However, a few recent reports indicate that the risk of SIDS is greater for babies placed on their sides versus those placed truly supine. (references)

Also, studies have shown that it is unusual for a baby who is placed in a supine position to roll into a prone position during early infancy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "supine": being supine ♦ lie supine ♦ supine position. Additional references.

Albanian

supin, i shtrirë në shpinë, i plogët (apathetic, apathetical, clumsy, dull, idle, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, slack, slothful). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسول (dull, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, lumpish, passive, shiftless, slothful, slow, sluggard, sluggardly, sluggish), ‏مستلق (lying down, reclining), ‏سلبي (minus, negative, passive, predatory, unfavorable, unfavourable), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

супин, наклонен (downhill, hanging, inclined, intent, low-grade, oblique, one sided, prone, rampant, ready, scalene, skew, slant, slantindicular, slanting, sloped, sloping, splay), муден (backward, bovine, costive, dilatory, floppy, inactive, inert, laggard, languid, long, phlegmatic, slothful, slow, sluggish, stagnant, sulky, sullen, tardy), лежащ на гръб, бездейно, бездеен (helter-skelter, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, inoperative, passive, sluggish, torpid). (various references)

Chinese 

仰. (various references)

Czech

neteèný (apathetic, impassive, indifferent, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lethargic, passive, phlegmatic, sleepy, sluggish), ležící na zádech. (various references)

Danish

supination (supination), rygliggende. (various references)

Dutch

supine, in supinatiehouding, in supinatie, in supiene houding. (various references)

Farsi 

تاق باز, سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak), بیحال (Insensate, Lethargic, Passive, Torpid), برپشت خوابیدن . (various references)

Finnish

selinmakuu. (various references)

French

supination (f), passif, mou, indolent, en supination, couché, étendu sur le dos. (various references)

German

supinium, Supination (supination), supin, zurückliegend, träge (dull, idle, idly, indolent, indolently, inert, inertly, languid, languidly, languorous, languorously, lazily, lazy, lethargic, lethargically, phlegmatic, shiftless, slack, slothful, slow, sluggardly, sluggish, stagnant, supinely, tardy, torpid), gleichgültig (apathetic, casual, dry, immaterial, indifferent, indifferently, languorous, nonchalant, nonchalantly, trivial, uncaring, unconcerned, unconcernedly, unheeding, unimportant, uninterested, unresponsive), auswärtsgedreht, auf dem rücken liegend. (various references)

Greek 

ύπτιοσ (lying on one's back), σουπίνο, νωχελήσ (indolent), υπτιασμός (supination), ανάσκελα (on one's back, supinely). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפורק�", לשכב על �"�'ב, שוכב על �"�'ב, שו�" � פש (indifferent, unconcerned), פרק�"ן. (various references)

Hungarian

szupinum, hanyatt fekve, hanyatt fekvõ, erõtlen (enervate, forceless, lifeless, powerless, sapless, spiritless, washed up). (various references)

Indonesian

terlentang. (various references)

Italian

supino (aback, back, backward, backwards, on one's back). (various references)

Manx

sheeynt er y dreeym, mettey (boneless, delicate, faint-hearted, prim, shaky, soft, tender, weak-minded, yellow). (various references)

Pig Latin

upinesay

Portuguese

em supinação. (various references)

Romanian

supin, moale (apathetic, apathetical, doughy, flabby, flexible, invertebrate, languid, languidly, lax, light, limp, limply, mellow, mild, milk and water, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slack, slacky, sloppy, smooth, soft, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), indolent (careless, easy going, idle, indolent, lazy, nonchalant, remiss, slack, sleepy, slothful, truant, unheeding), culcat pe spate, apatic (apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, indifferent, indolently, insensible, lackadaisical, lackadaisically, languid, languidly, listless, moony, sleepy, sluggish, tardy, torpid), întins (broad, even, expanse, expansion, expansive, extensive, flat, flatly, large, lengthy, mighty, open, outspread, prone, recumbent, smooth, spacious, sprawling, strained, stretched, taut, tense, vast). (various references)

Russian 

супин, ленивый (faineant, floppy, idle, indolent, lazy, ornery, otiose, slack, slothful, work-shy), лежащий навзничь. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

supin, ukošen (italic), poleđuške, ležećki (lying), koji leži (recumbent). (various references)

Spanish

supino. (various references)

Swedish

liggande på rygg, slö (bovine, drowsy, dull, fat-witted, fishy, indolent, inert, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, obtuse, sappy, slack, stagnant). (various references)

Turkish

sırtüstü yatan, yatay (flat, horizontal, level), uyuşuk (asleep, benumbed, bonelazy, bovine, dormant, drowsy, happy, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, numb, poky, quiescent, slack, slacker, sleepy, slothful, slouching, slouchy, soggy, stick in the mud, torpid), lâkayt, i halinde isim fiil, gevşek (airy, crank, drooping, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, halfhearted, laidback, lax, limp, listless, loose, nonrigid, non-rigid, slack, slouching, slouchy, unstuck), den halinde isim fiil. (various references)

Ukrainian

що лежить горілиць, лінивий (feckless, floppy, lazy, lubberly, ornery, otiose, picktooth, pokey, poky), долонею вгору. (various references)

Vietnamese 

không hoạt động (dead-alive, inactive). (various references)

supinus. (various references)

supinum verbum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "supine": supinely, supineness, supinenesses, supines. (additional references)

Words ending with "supine": resupine. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Supine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sapien, sepina, Serpina, spinea, spinee, spunee, Subin, subpone, sulphite, sunin, supen, supi, supile, supin, supina, supline, suppine, surine, sutine, zupine. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: puisne.

-1 letter: peins, penis, pines, snipe, spine.

-2 letters: nips, pein, pens, pies, pine, pins, puns, sine, sipe, snip, spin, spue, spun, supe.

-3 letters: ens, ins, nip, nus, pen, pes, pie, pin, pis, piu, psi, pun, pus, sei, sen, sin, sip, sue, sun, sup, uns, ups, use.

-4 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, nu, pe, pi, si.

+1 letter: lineups, lupines, puisnes, puniest, punkies, punties, purines, spinule, spunkie, supines, unpiles, uprisen.

+2 letters: epigonus, finespun, junipers, penguins, penuchis, penuries, perusing, petunias, pinnules, pruinose, puniness, punished, punisher, punishes, punkiest, punniest, purlines, resupine, shunpike, spinulae, spinules, splenium, splenius, spunkier, spunkies, supering, supinate, supinely, unpoised, unripest.

+3 letters: bumpiness, dauphines, dumpiness, epifaunas, epigonous, epigynous, eruptions, espousing, euphenics, euphonies, expulsing, expulsion, impugners, insculped, jumpiness, lumpiness, peninsula, penurious, peponiums, perfusing, perfusion, perilunes, picayunes, piousness, piquances, prelusion, presuming, preunions, preunites, pudencies, pudginess, puffiness, puissance, pulpiness, punchiest, punishers, punkiness, pursiness, pushiness, queenship, repulsing, repulsion, shunpiked, shunpiker, shunpikes, spinulose, spunkiest, subalpine, superfine, superlain, supermind, supermini, superthin, supinated, supinates, tumplines, turnpikes, underlips, underpins, underspin, unrepairs, unshipped, unspoiled, upsending, upsetting.