Definition of prone

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Prone (a.) Bending forward; inclined; not erect.

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Erect :: Erect (a.) Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect..
Procumbent :: Procumbent (a.) Lying down, or on the face; prone..
Apish :: Apish (a.) Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
Aptness :: Aptness (n.) Proneness; tendency; as, the aptness of iron to rust..
Prorenal :: Prorenal (a.) Pronephric.
Spontaneous :: Spontaneous (a.) Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion..
Subject :: Subject (a.) Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation..
Alarmist :: Alarmist (n.) One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms..
Groveling :: Groveling (a.) Lying prone; low; debased.
Excursive :: Excursive (a.) Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy..
Proneness :: Proneness (n.) Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition; as, proneness to self-gratification..
Prone :: Prone (a.) Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level..
Abusive :: Abusive (a.) Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow..
Proclive :: Proclive (a.) Having a tendency by nature; prone; proclivous.
Pronephric :: Pronephric (a.) Of or pertaining to the pronephros.
Protureter :: Protureter (n.) The duct of a pronephros.
Supine :: Supine (a.) Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone..
Revengeful :: Revengeful (a.) Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge..
Transformation :: Transformation (n.) Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis..
Suspicious :: Suspicious (a.) Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.
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