PRONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prone mean? 

• PRONE (adjective)
  The adjective PRONE has 2 senses:

1. having a tendency (to); often used in combination

2. lying face downward

  Familiarity information: PRONE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRONE (adjective)

Comparative: proner   
Superlative: pronest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a tendency (to); often used in combination

Context example:

failure-prone

Similar:

inclined ((often followed by 'to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency)

Derivation:

proneness (being disposed to do something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lying face downward

Synonyms:

prone; prostrate

Similar:

unerect (not upright in position or posture)

 Context examples 

Rather than stay shuttered inside, as Pisces is sometimes prone to do, you’ll want to be out and about, seeing friends and attending events.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But Wolf Larsen seemed voluble, prone to speech as I had never seen him before.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Patients are prone to develop hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.

(Griscelli Syndrome Type 2, NCI Thesaurus)

People lacking C1 inhibitor have also been identified and found to be prone to uncontrolled complement activation and dangerous swelling through production of C3a and C5a anaphylatoxins.

(Complement Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

No matter what the job is, the goal is to make sure that you are safe, comfortable, and less prone to work-related injuries.

(Ergonomics, NIH)

Although less prone to glutathione inactivation compared to cisplatin, resistance to this agent has been observed in vitro due to repair of platination damage by tumor cells.

(Iproplatin, NCI Thesaurus)

The investigators found that sodium lactate activates orexin-secreting neurons in panic-prone rats.

(The Mechanism of Panic Attacks, NIH, US)

There are many unpainted buildings in tropical developing countries and such buildings are more prone to the problem.

(Smoother walls healthier for lungs, SciDev.Net)

But they also are prone to failure, and often break.

(Materials, like metallic glass, can help us understand how cells break, NSF)

Consequences for the people living in one of the world’s most fragile and disaster-prone mountain regions will range from worsened air pollution to an increase in extreme weather events.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)