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adjective

Prone adj.

Bending forward; inclined; not erect. "Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone."

Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; opposed to supine. "Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone."

Headlong; running downward or headlong. "Down thither prone in flight."

Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level. "Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land."

Inclined; propense; disposed; applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to. "Prone to mischief." "Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prone" Quotes from Famous Books

... narrow crest—when the cowboy suddenly checked his horse and slipped from the saddle. With a gesture he bade his companion follow his example, and in a moment Patches stood beside him. Leaving their horses, they crept the few remaining feet to the summit. Crouching low, then lying prone, they worked their way to the top of a huge rounded rock, from which they could look over and down upon the country that ...

— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright

... him such attendance as his state needed, and as only a woman can give. Yet his life hung in the balance; and I was still strong and whole and free. Wherefore great gloom reigned at Zenda; and save when they quarrelled, to which they were very prone, they hardly spoke. But the deeper the depression of the rest, young Rupert went about Satan's work with a smile in his eye and a song on his lip; and laughed "fit to burst" (said Johann) because ...

— The Prisoner of Zenda • Anthony Hope

... at her queerly. She was not prone to sarcasm, she had not been given to sentimentalism in the past; she had taken the border-life as it was, had looked it straight between the eyes. She had lived up to it, or down to it, without any fuss, as good as any man in any phase of the ...

— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker

... seem nonsense to you is not the same to her. You must be forbearing, Ethel. Remember that dependence is prone to morbid sensitiveness, especially in those who have a humble ...

— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge

... ready at that time to take back his speech advocating the government ownership of railroads, a gesture against "the interests," made at the bidding of Hearst, at the beck of whose agents he is prone to bestir himself. ...

— The Mirrors of Washington • Anonymous

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