Word Meanings - PRONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Bending forward; inclined; not erect. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone. Milton. 2. Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine. Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone. Byron.

Additional info about word: PRONE

1. Bending forward; inclined; not erect. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone. Milton. 2. Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine. Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone. Byron. 3. Headlong; running downward or headlong. "Down thither prone in flight." Milton. 4. Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level. Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land. Blackmore. 5. Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to. "Prone to mischief." Shak. Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy. Landor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRONE)

• Addicted
• Given
• accustomed
• prone
• inclined
• disposed
• habituated
• Prostrate
• Fallen
• flat
• procumbent
• lifeless
• ruined
• overpowered
• oppressed
• Subject
• Subordinate
• subservient
• exposed
• liable
• obnoxious
• amenable

Related words: (words related to PRONE)

• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• PROSTRATE
  1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. Evelyn. 2. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government;
• OBNOXIOUS
  1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• DISPOSURE
  1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
• SUBJECTION
  1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
• SUBJECTIST
  One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SUBJECTNESS
  Quality of being subject.
• DISPOSITED
  Disposed. Glanvill.
• EXPOSTULATOR
  One who expostulates. Lamb.
• DISPOSITOR
  The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer.
• DISPOSEDNESS
  The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
• DISPOSSESS
  To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• DISPOSED
  1. Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. 2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. Chaucer.
• PROCUMBENT
  Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem. (more info) to fall, bend, or lean forward; pro forward + cumbere , 1. Lying down, or on the face; prone. " Procumbent each obeyed." Cowper.
• PRUINOUS
  Frosty; pruinose.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• DISPOSE
  Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in