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supine
Synonyms and Antonyms of supine
- They blamed the disaster on supine politicians who allowed large corporations to flout regulations.
feeble, passive, spineless, unaggressive
acquiescent, nonresistant, resigned, tolerant, tolerating, unresistant, yielding
obeisant, submissive, surrendering
agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willing
apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive
incapable, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inept, unfit, useless
hamstrung, handcuffed, helpless, high and dry, hog-tied, impotent, impuissant, paralyzed, powerless, weak
contrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward
able, capable, competent, effective, efficient
authoritarian, autocratic (also autocratical), despotic, dictatorial, magisterial, tyrannical (also tyrannic)
dominant, dynamic, energetic, forceful, robust, sturdy, tough, vigorous
balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded
headstrong, willful (or wilful)
Synonym Discussion of supine
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- push-ups require a prone position
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- lying supine on the couch
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- a runner fell prostrate at the finish line
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- a patient comfortably recumbent in a hospital bed
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