Prostrate Synonyms and Antonyms

prŏstrāt
Defenseless
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. open
  2. overcome
  3. beaten
Submissive
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. given-in
  2. obedient
  3. subservient
Antonyms:
  1. strong
  2. healthy
  3. self-sufficient
  4. fresh
  5. happy
  6. hale
  7. successful
Lying on the ground
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. flat
  2. prone
  3. horizontal
  4. decumbent
  5. procumbent
  6. laid low
  7. recumbent
Antonyms:
  1. upright
  2. erect
  3. vertical
  4. straight
To overthrow
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wreck
  2. crush
  3. engulf
  4. destroy
  5. overcome
  6. overpower
  7. ruin
  8. overwhelm
To bow down
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. fall on one's knees
  2. bow-and-scrape
  3. kowtow
  4. do obeisance
Antonyms:
  1. help
  2. stand
  3. assuage
  4. soothe
  5. straighten
  6. please
  7. aid
  8. assist
  9. erect

Words Related to Prostrate

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Prostrate Sentence Examples

  • I am stripped of all my honours; I am torn up by the roots and lie prostrate on the earth..

  • Groups of large prostrate junipers make a fine contrast.

  • I tell you again that the recollection of the manner in which I saw the queen of France in 1774, and the contrast between that brilliancy, splendour and beauty, with the prostrate homage of a nation to her, and the abominable scene of 1789 which I was describing, did draw tears from me and wetted my paper.

  • We went out to see the hero that had withstood so many tempests, and it wrung my heart to see him prostrate who had mightily striven and was now mightily fallen.

  • Poetry must be conceived as a violent attack on unknown forces, to reduce and prostrate them before man.

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