prostrate

1. 1.

   stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

   “found himself lying flat on the floor”

   Synonymsflat

   Similarunerect
2. 2.

   lying face downward

   Synonymsprone

   Similarunerect

Other forms of prostrate

past tense

prostrated·

present participle

prostrating·

third person

prostrates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prostrate

What does prostrate mean?

prostrate means "get into a prostrate position, as in submission". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prostrate?

prostrate has 2 syllables: pro-strate. The stress falls on "pro". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɑstɹeɪt/.

What is another word for prostrate?

Close synonyms include bow down, flat, prone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prostrate a common word?

prostrate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.