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UNERECT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not upright in position or posture
Classified under:
Similar:
accumbent; decumbent; recumbent (lying down; in a position of comfort or rest)
bended; bent (used of the back and knees; stooped)
cernuous; drooping; nodding; pendulous; weeping (having branches or flower heads that bend downward)
couchant (lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward)
dormant; sleeping (lying with head on paws as if sleeping)
flat; prostrate (stretched out and lying at full length along the ground)
crooked; hunched; round-backed; round-shouldered; stooped; stooping (having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect)
procumbent (having stems that trail along the ground without putting down roots)
prone; prostrate (lying face downward)
semi-prostrate (imperfectly prostrate; prostrate for part of its length)
resupine; supine (lying face upward)
Attribute:
attitude; position; posture (the arrangement of the body and its limbs)
Antonym:
erect (upright in position or posture)
