Prone definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PRONE, a. [L. pronus.] Bending forward; inclined; not erect. 1. Lying ... to supine. 2. Headlong; precipitous; inclining in descent. Down thither prone in flight. 3. Sloping; declivous; inclined. Since the floods demand For their descent, a prone and sinking land. 4. Inclined; propense; disposed; applied to the ... mind or affections, usually in an ill sense; as men prone to evil, prone to strife, prone to intemperance, prone to deny the ...
accident prone definitions Collin's Cobuild Dictionary also accident-prone If you describe someone or something as accident prone, you mean that a lot of accidents or other unpleasant ...
... earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move with the body prostrate on the earth; to ... or -elled; -eling or -elling) Etymology: back-formation from groveling prone, from groveling, adverb, from Middle English, from gruf, adverb, on ... 1 behave obsequiously in seeking favour or forgiveness. 2 lie prone in abject humility. Derivatives: groveller n. grovelling adj. grovellingly adv ... or Grovelling.] [From OE. grovelinge, grufelinge, adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf ... u]fa, in [=a] gr[=u]fu on the face, prone, gr[=u]fa to grovel.] 1. To creep on the ... earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the ...
... to extreme heat or cold. 4. Liable from inherent causes; prone; disposed. All human things are subject to decay. 5. Being ... exposure < subject to temptation > b. having a tendency or inclination ; prone < subject to colds > 3. contingent on or under the influence ... etc.; in subjection. 2 (foll. by to) liable, exposed, or prone to (is subject to infection). 3 (foll. by to) conditional ... Esau was never subject to Jacob. --Locke. 3. Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject ... at one's mercy. 3. Submissive, obedient. 4. Exposed, liable, prone, disposed, obnoxious. III. n. 1. Dependant, subordinate, person owing allegiance ... point in question, practice, practitioner, predicate, prime mover, problem, producer, prone, prone to, proseminar, put, put down, put on, put ...
... or Grovelling.] [From OE. grovelinge, grufelinge, adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf ... u]fa, in [=a] gr[=u]fu on the face, prone, gr[=u]fa to grovel.] 1. To creep on the ... earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth ... Webster's 1913 Dictionary Groveling Grov"el*ing, a. Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] ``A groveling creature.'' --Cowper. Moby ... obeisance, obeisant, obsequious, obsequiousness, on bended knee, parasitic, parasitism, procumbent, prone, prostrate, prostration, reclining, recumbent, reposing, resupine, sniveling, sponging, sprawled, sprawling ...
... on the back, or with the face upward; opposed to prone. 1. Leaning backward; or inclining with exposure to the sun ... morally slack 3. archaic leaning or sloping backward Synonyms: see prone, inactive • supinely adverb • supineness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. & n. --adj. 1 lying face upwards (cf. PRONE). 2 having the front or ventral part upwards; (of the ... on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone. 2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun ... nonresisting, nonresistive, numb, numbed, obedient, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, pooped, procumbent, prone, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, reposing, resigned, resupine, runty, sated, servile, short ...
... you're liable to fall > Synonyms: liable, open, exposed, subject, prone, susceptible, sensitive mean being by nature or through circumstances likely ... be suffered or undergone < all reports are subject to review >. prone stresses natural tendency or propensity to incur something < prone to delay >. susceptible implies conditions existing in one's nature ... which makes the muscles of the airways liable to constriction. = prone ADJ: v-link ADJ to n 3. If you are ... penetrable, pledged, predictable, predictable within limits, presumable, presumptive, probable, promising, prone, responsible, responsible for, sensitive, statistically probable, subject, susceptible, tied, to ...
... the floor" [syn: flat, prostrate] 2: lying face downward [syn: prone, prostrate] v 1: get into a prostrate position, as in ... 3. trailing on the ground ; procumbent < prostrate shrubs > Synonyms: see prone II. transitive verb (prostrated; prostrating) Date: 15th century 1. to ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms I. a. 1. Prostrated, prone, stretched out, flat, fallen. 2. ( Bot. ) Procumbent. II. v. a ... out, pooped, pooped out, powerless, prayerful, precative, precatory, precipitate, procumbent, prone, prostrate before, prostrated, psych out, pull down, put down, quell ...
... or Grovelling.] [From OE. grovelinge, grufelinge, adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf ... u]fa, in [=a] gr[=u]fu on the face, prone, gr[=u]fa to grovel.] 1. To creep on the ... earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth ... Webster's 1913 Dictionary Groveling Grov"el*ing, a. Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] ``A groveling creature.'' --Cowper. Soule ...
... Dictionary v.tr. put (the hand, forearm, etc.) into a prone position (with the palm etc. downwards) (cf. SUPINATE). Derivatives: pronation n. Etymology: back-form. f. pronation (as PRONE) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pronate Pro"nate, a. [L. pronatus, p. p. of pronare to bend forward. See Prone.] Somewhat prone; inclined; as, pronate trees. --Kane.