Supine
WordNet
adjective
(1) Offering no resistance
"Resistless hostages"
"No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt
(2) Lying face upward
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Etymology
From , from , . Grammatical meaning is from the phrase supinum verbum.
Adjective
- Lying on its back, reclined
- Sloping or inclined
- Lethargic; blameworthy indifferent
- Passive
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, London: Oxford University Press: 1973, page 34,
- Nothing, therefore, can be more contrary than such a philosophy to the supine indolence of the mind.
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, London: Oxford University Press: 1973, page 34,