- Lying down - Reclining - Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of
the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive;
idle.
- Forlorn, pitiable - Pitiful - Utterly wretched - Utterly wretched or hopeless - Wretched object changes at the start - Cast down; low-lying. - Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded;
servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
- Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. - Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and
tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.