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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Supine

/(sū̇*pīn")/ · Su·pine · IPA /ˌsuˈpaɪn/
01 a. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.
  1. 1.
    Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.
  2. 2.
    Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
    “If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine.” — Dryden.
  3. 3.
    Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
    “He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation.” — Woodward.
Syn. Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive; listless; careless; drowsy.
02 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 for…
  1. 1.
    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.(Lat. Gram.)