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UNERECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unerect mean? 

UNERECT (adjective)
  The adjective UNERECT has 1 sense:

1. not upright in position or postureplay

  Familiarity information: UNERECT used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNERECT (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not upright in position or posture

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)


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