Definitions for prone

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prone prone

Spelling: [prohn]

IPA: /proʊn/

Prone is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in prone (enopr).

Definitions for prone

noun

1. a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.

adjective

1. having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable:
2. having the front or ventral part downward; lying face downward.
3. lying flat; prostrate.
4. having a downward direction or slope.
5. having the palm downward, as the hand.

Origin of prone

1350-1400; Middle English Latin prōnus turned or leaning forward, inclined downward, disposed, prone

Examples for prone

This style of woodfire cooking is prone to sudden fluctuations in temperature due to the subtleties and different sizes of wood.

The weight which had crushed the bush down had been a prone, dead weight.

That gave a huge advantage to the sunny Republican prone to hugging supporters.

She turns in dud stories, misses deadlines, and is prone to occasionally sleeping with her young, struggling musician sources.

The candidate formerly known as Scott Fistler, 38, refuses to say if he is actually Hispanic and is prone to wearing fedoras.

Some kids are prone to letting their minds wander and daydreaming.

Youth is prone to endow its opinions with all the dignity of certain knowledge.

All, both rulers and ruled, are men, and prone to follow after their lusts.

All around him he saw the prone bodies of his men, naked to the view of all and sundry.

I had rather dreaded the oath which his lordship is prone to use lightly.