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| 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: | 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: | prostrate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flat, horizontal |
| Synonyms: | abject, bowed low, procumbent, prone, reclining, recumbent, supine |
| 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 prostate is the gland; prostrate means 'lying face down' 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: | erect, straight, upright, vertical |
| 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: | creeping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | given to creeping |
| Synonyms: | climbing, clinging, growing along the ground, horizontal, procumbent, prostrate, recumbent, reptant, reptilian, serpentine, spreading, stoloniferous, trailing, vermicular, vinelike |
| Antonyms: | standing, upright, vertical |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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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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