recumbent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: re=cum=bent

CIDE DICTIONARY

recumbent, a. [L. recumbens, -entis, p. pr. of recumbere. See Recumb, Incumbent.].

 Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

recumbent, adj. lying down; reclining.

Derivative

recumbency n. recumbently adv.

Etymology

L recumbere recline (as RE-, cumbere lie)

THESAURUS

recumbent

accumbent, aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting, careening, couchant, couche, crawling, crouched, debased, decumbent, depressed, draped, flat, groveling, horizontal, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, knee-high, knocked flat, laid low, leaning, listing, lolling, lounging, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, lying, lying down, neap, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, procumbent, prone, prostrate, raking, reclining, reposing, resupine, runty, shelving, shelvy, short, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squat, squatty, stooped, stretched out, stumpy, supine, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, unelevated

ROGET THESAURUS

recumbent

Horizontality

N horizontality, flatness, level, plane, stratum, dead level, dead flat, level plane, recumbency, lying down, reclination, decumbence, decumbency, discumbency, proneness, accubation, supination, resupination, prostration, azimuth, plain, floor, platform, bowling green, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, billiard table, terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre, table land, plateau, ledge, butte, mesa (plain), level, spirit level, horizontal, level, even, plane, flat, flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green, alluvial, calm, calm as a mill pond, smooth, smooth as glass, recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent, lying, prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant, horizontally, on one's back, on all fours, on its beam ends.