Word
Supine
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
su-pine
Definition
- a. - Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to
prone.
- a. - Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun;
sloping; inclined.
- a. - Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
- n. - 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.
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