ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Supinely

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Supinely is an adverb meaning in a supine way, with the head facing up.

Meaning

in a supine way, with the head facing up.

Example Sentences

Giddy and intoxicated as I was with such satiating draughts of pleasure, I still lay on the couch, supinely stretched out, in a delicious languor diffus'd over all my limbs
“In the jungle one would scarcely stand supinely aside while another took his mate. It is a silly world, an idiotic world, and Tarzan of the Apes was a fool to renounce the freedom and the happiness of his jungle to come into it.”

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include face-up, pronely, face-down, unuprightly, headlong, supraumbilically.

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