1
[ adjective ] lying face upward

Synonyms

resupine

Used in print

(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)

Have the class lie supine with knees apart and bent .

Related terms

unerect

2
[ adjective ] offering no resistance

Synonyms

unresisting resistless

Examples

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

Related terms

passive

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Rhymes with

spine pine lupine spine pine clozapine opine porcupine alpine opine alpine lupine clozapine porcupine

Phonetic and Homophones

S UW1 P AY0 N
S AH0 P AY1 N

Similar Spelling

spine subpoena

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