Supine meaning

Adjective: supine

Pronunciation: (soo,pIn)

Supine meaning:

•  Lying on the back or with the face upward.
• Exhibiting apathetic inertia or passivity.
• Leaning or sloping backward.

and sottish despondency of mind.

The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and encapsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.

The strange and compelling statue of man bearing down upon a supine female form depicts one of Goa ’s most famous home grown talents.

That looked more like supine shapes dancing in the mist.

I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tide flats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

I was placed supine on the stretcher in the hospital.