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prone (adjective), more prone, most prone
1. Descriptive of someone who is lying with his or her body in a horizontal position with the face down: Mark stretched out in a prone way on his chest on the couch as he was taking a nap in the afternoon.
2. Relating to a condition of suffering from something: Ken has a prone depression and needs psychiatric help.

Sharon has a prone reaction to giggling at the most inappropriate times.

3. Etymology: from Latin pronus, "bent forward" from pro-, "forward."
Referring to a tendency to do something.
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Characteristic of being mentally inclined to react in a certain way.
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prone
With the front or ventral surface downward (lying face down), as opposed to supine.
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