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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying down |
| Synonyms: | accumbent, flat, horizontal, prone, prostrate, reclining, recumbent |
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| Main Entry: | low |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | close to the ground; short |
| Synonyms: | below, beneath, bottom, bottommost, crouched, decumbent, deep, depressed, flat, ground-level, inferior, junior, lesser, level, little, low-hanging, low-lying, low-set, lowering, minor, nether, not high, profound, prostrate, rock-bottom, shallow, small, squat, squatty, stunted, subjacent, subsided, sunken, under, unelevated |
| Antonyms: | above, high, tall |
| Main Entry: | prone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying down |
| Synonyms: | decumbent, face down, flat, horizontal, level, procumbent, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, resupine, supine |
| Notes: | apt is for general probabilities, likely is for specific probabilities; liable and prone indicate a probability arising as a regrettable consequence prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is also true for prostrate, but only in expressing adoration or begging for protection; supine is lying on your back supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while recumbent is lying flat in any position |
| Antonyms: | sitting, straight, upright |
| Main Entry: | recumbent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying down |
| Synonyms: | decumbent, flat, horizontal, level, procumbent, prostrate, reclining, resupine, sprawling, supine |
| Notes: | supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while recumbent is lying flat in any position |
| Main Entry: | supine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying down |
| Synonyms: | decumbent, flat, flat on one's back, horizontal, level, procumbent, prone, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, stretched out |
| Notes: | prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is also true for prostrate, but only in expressing adoration or begging for protection; supine is lying on your back supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while recumbent is lying flat in any position |
| Main Entry: | reclining |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying |
| Synonyms: | decumbent, flat, leaning, loner, recumbent, troglodyte |
| Antonyms: | sitting, standing |
| Main Entry: | procumbent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flat |
| Synonyms: | decumbent, flat on one's back, horizontal, laying down, parallel, prone, prostrate, recumbent, supine |
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| Main Entry: | flat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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accumbent, aclinal, agroof, alluvial, applanate, calm, calm as a mill pond, campestral, champaign, couchant, decubital, decumbent, discoid, even, flat, flat as a billiard table, flat as a board, flat as a bowling-green, flat as a flounder, flat as a fluke, flat as a pancake, flat as my hand, flush, horizontal, jacent, level, lying, oblate, planar, plane, procumbent, prone, prostrate, raxed, rectiserial, recumbent, smooth, smooth as glass, supine, ventricumbent
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| Main Entry: | low |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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