資料來源 : pyDict

仰臥的,掌心向上的,懶散的

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Supine \Su*pine"\, a. [L. supinus, akin to sub under, super
   above. Cf. {Sub-}, {Super-}.]
   1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to
      prone.

   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. 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. -- {Su*pine"ly}, adv. --
        {Su*pine"ness}, n.

Supine \Su"pine\, n. [L. supinum (sc. verbum), from supinus bent
   or thrown backward, perhaps so called because, although
   furnished with substantive case endings, it rests or falls
   back, as it were, on the verb: cf. F. supin.] (Lat. Gram.)
   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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

supine
     adj 1: lying face upward [syn: {resupine}]
     2: 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 [syn: {resistless}, {unresisting}]