Pronunciation Adjective
prone
- Lying face downward.
- Synonyms: prostrate
- Antonyms: supine
- prone position
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
- Having a downward inclination or slope.
- Shooting from a lying down position.
- (figuratively) Predisposed, liable, inclined.
- prone to failure
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 141”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted[S%3Aen%3AShakespeare%27s_Sonnets_%281883%29%2FSonnet_141], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634 ↗:
- Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted; / Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, / Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited / To any sensual feast with thee alone: {{...}
- French: couché sur le ventre
- German: in Bauchlage
- Italian: prono, prostrato, inchinato, reclino
- Russian: лежа́щий ничко́м
- Spanish: postrado, de bruces, decúbito prono
- French: enclin
- German: schräg
- Italian: pendente, inclinato, reclino, obliquo
- Portuguese: inclinado, prono
- Russian: накло́нный
- Russian: лёжа
- French: prédisposé, enclin
- German: anfällig, geneigt
- Italian: incline, predisposto, portato, disposto, orientato
- Portuguese: propenso
- Russian: скло́нный
- Spanish: propenso
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