UNERECT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Not upright in position or posture

Classified under:

Adjectives

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)