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supineadjective lacking the ability or will to act on one's ownThey blamed the disaster on supine politicians who allowed large corporations to flout regulations. feeble, passive, spineless, unaggressiveacquiescent, nonresistant, resigned, tolerant, tolerating, unresistant, yieldingobeisant, submissive, surrenderingslavish, subservientagreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willingamiable, obligingapathetic, uncaring, unresponsiveincapable, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inept, unfit, uselesshamstrung, handcuffed, helpless, high and dry, hog-tied, impotent, impuissant, paralyzed, powerless, weak indomitabledefiantcontrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untowardable, capable, competent, effective, efficientauthoritarian, autocratic(also autocratical), despotic, dictatorial, magisterial, tyrannical(also tyrannic)dominant, dynamic, energetic, forceful, robust, sturdy, tough, vigorousbalky, perverse, wayward, wrongheadedheadstrong, willful(or wilful)undisciplined, unmanageabledissident, nonconformistimportant, major, significanthigh-level, senior, topmighty, potent, powerful, puissant, strong prone, supine, prostrate, recumbent mean lying down.prone implies a position with the front of the body turned toward the supporting surface.push-ups require a prone position supine implies lying on one's back and suggests inertness or abjectness.lying supine on the couch prostrate implies lying full-length as in submission, defeat, or physical collapse.a runner fell prostrate at the finish line recumbent implies the posture of one sleeping or resting.a patient comfortably recumbent in a hospital bed in the 15th century |