Prostrate vs. Prone — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Prostrate and Prone
ADVERTISEMENT
Compare with Definitions
Prostrate
Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downwards
They surged forward around the prostrate figure on the ground
There was a man praying before an idol, lying prostrate
Prone
Likely or liable to suffer from, do, or experience something unpleasant or regrettable
He was written off by many as too injury-prone
Farmed fish are prone to disease
Prostrate
Growing along the ground
Mats of prostrate herbs can be used to break up expanses of soil
Prone
Lying flat, especially face downwards
A prone position
I was lying prone on a foam mattress
Prostrate
Throw oneself flat on the ground so as to be lying face downwards, especially in reverence or submission
She prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church
ADVERTISEMENT
Prone
Lying with the front or face downward.
Prostrate
Reduce (someone) to extreme physical weakness
She was so prostrated by migraine that she could scarcely totter up the stairs to bed
Prone
Having a tendency; inclined. Often used in combination
Paper that is prone to yellowing.
An accident-prone child.
Prostrate
To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration
"He did not simply sit and meditate, he also knelt down, sometimes even prostrated himself" (Iris Murdoch).
Prone
In a prone manner
The patient was lying prone on the bed.
Prostrate
To cause to lie flat
The wind prostrated the young trees.
Prone
Lying face downward.
Prone position
Prostrate
To reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome
An illness that prostrated an entire family.
A nation that was prostrated by years of civil war.
Prone
Of the hand, forearm or foot: turned facing away from the body; with the thumb inward or big toe downward.
The hand is in the prone position typically when using a keyboard; and the forearm is then also in the prone position; when the foot is resting on the inner side of the sole, it is in the prone position.
Prostrate
Lying face down, as in submission or adoration.
Prone
Having a downward inclination or slope.
Prostrate
Lying flat or at full length.
Prone
(figuratively) Predisposed, liable, inclined.
Prone to failure
Prostrate
Reduced to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome.
Prone
(medicine) To place in a prone position, to place face down.
Prostrate
(Botany) Growing flat along the ground.
Prone
Bending forward; inclined; not erect.
Towards him they bendWith awful reverence prone.
Prostrate
Lying flat, face-down.
Prone
Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; - opposed to supine.
Which, as the wind,Blew where it listed, laying all things prone.
Prostrate
(figuratively) Emotionally devastated.
Prone
Headlong; running downward or headlong.
Prostrate
Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
Prone
Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.
Since the floods demand,For their descent, a prone and sinking land.
Prostrate
(botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
Prone
Inclined; propense; disposed; - applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.
Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy.
Prostrate
To lie flat or face-down.
Prone
Lying face downward
Prostrate
To throw oneself down in submission.
Prone
Having a tendency (to); often used in combination;
A child prone to mischief
Failure-prone
Prostrate
To cause to lie down, to flatten.
Prostrate
(figuratively) To overcome or overpower.
Prostrate
Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire.
Prostrate
Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
Prostrate
Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
Prostrate fallBefore him reverent, and there confessHumbly our faults.
Prostrate
Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
Prostrate
To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
Prostrate
To overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
Prostrate
To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
Prostrate
To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
Prostrate
Get into a prostrate position, as in submission
Prostrate
Render helpless or defenseless;
They prostrated the enemy
Prostrate
Throw down flat, as on the ground;
She prostrated herself with frustration
Prostrate
Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
Found himself lying flat on the floor
Prostrate
Lying face downward
Share Your Discovery
Previous Comparison
Colon vs. DistalNext Comparison
Disingenuous vs. Ingenious