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Meaning of supine

- Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.
- Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
- Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
- 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.

Crossword clue for supine

- Lethargic
- Lying face upwards
- Lying flat
- Lying on one’s back
- Negligently inert
- Sue, having knocked back a shot of whisky, is lying down