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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Supine \Su*pine"\, adjective [L. supinus, akin to sub under, super above. Cf. {Sub-}, {Super-}.]
1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.
2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. --Dryden.
3. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation. --Woodward.
Syn: Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive; listless; careless; drowsy. -- {Su*pine"ly}, adverb -- {Su*pine"ness}, n.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Supine \Su"pine\, noun [L. supinum (sc. verbum), from supinus bent or thrown backward, perhaps so called because, although furnished with substantive case endings, it rests or falls back, as it were, on the verb: cf. F. supin.] (Lat. Gram.) A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
supine
adjective
1: lying face upward [syn: {resupine}]
2: offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt [syn: {resistless}, {unresisting}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
144 Moby Thesaurus words for "supine": Laodicean, Olympian, abject, accepting, accumbent, acquiescent, agreeable, aloof, apathetic, assenting, benumbed, blah, blase, bored, comatose, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, consenting, couchant, couche, crawling, crouched, dead, debased, debilitated, decumbent, depressed, desensitized, detached, disinterested, dopey, dormant, draped, droopy, drugged, dull, enervated, exanimate, flat, groveling, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hopeless, idle, in a stupor, inactive, inanimate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, jaded, knee-high, knocked flat, lackadaisical, laid low, languid, languorous, lazy, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lolling, lounging, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, lumpish, lying, lying down, moribund, motionless, neap, nonchalant, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, numb, numbed, obedient, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, pooped, procumbent, prone, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, reposing, resigned, resupine, runty, sated, servile, short, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, somnolent, soporific, spiritless, sprawled, sprawling, spread, spunkless, squat, squatty, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stooped, stultified, stumpy, stupefied, submissive, subservient, torpid, unassertive, uncaring, uncomplaining, unconcerned, unelevated, uninterested, unresistant, unresisting, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary
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