1. supine - Noun
2. supine - Adjective
3. supine - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. Eldridge Cleaver
Lampposts look in the glow of their defeated light robbed by the fog but cannot tell if the streets lying by stretching limbs in courtyards are sleeping face downwards or supine. Suman Pokhrel
To err is human; to forgive, supine. S. J. Perelman
Now there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace. Lois McMaster Bujold
No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried Source: Internet
He and the evil John Bolton, aggressively moved to disable pandemic prevention forces in the U.S. government, boosted by supine, maniacal right wing talk radio show hosts (Rush Limbaugh said the virus is “just a cold”). Source: Internet