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reclining

reclining

3.7
Lying or leaning back to rest in a comfortable position
  • noun
  • /rɪˈklaɪnɪŋ/
translation icon : reclinación
  • The chair's reclining position allows users to relax comfortably while watching TV.

Examples

  • His favorite pastime was reclining on the beach and soaking up the sun.

  • A statue of Henry Moore's Draped Reclining Woman... used to reside on this up here... but there was an auction one day and Oprah bought it.

    Columbus (2017)

  • If one wants to find out about Renoir's Reclining Nude, for example, there are a number of ways to discover it, both historically and aesthetically.

    Academic text (1997)

  • An illustration appearing near the beginning of the book, Marc Chagall's "The Poet Reclining," announces this theme of landscape immersion.

    Academic text (1999)

  • PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): 1 Edouard Manet, Baudelaire's Mistress, Reclining, 1862, oil on canvas. Budapest, Szepmuveszti Museum.

    Academic text (1997)

  • I don't think there is a more perfect place to experience this indulgence than Wat Pho—the Temple of the Reclining Buddha—in Bangkok.

    Blog text (15)

  • She loved reclining in the hammock, enjoying the gentle sway and the sound of the breeze.

Synonyms

layback
vsreclining
6.4

A backward-leaning position for rest or balance

is a general act of leaning or lying back not limited to sport
recumbency
vsreclining
  • Specialized
8.7

A position of lying down to rest or recover

is about leaning back or being partly upright rather than fully horizontal

Antonyms

sitting
1.0

Someone who is upright and resting on their bottom

Compounds

reclining chair
2 2.7

An armchair with a back that tilts and a footrest that rises

How Reclined

lying supine
1 6.1
reclining
3.7

Surface Forms

reclining singular
reclinings plural

Morphology

reclining = recline (transparent) = recline + ing

The noun is the gerund/nominalization of the verb 'recline' formed by adding the productive suffix '-ing', so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Reclining comes from Latin parts re- meaning 'back' and clinare meaning 'to lean', the same root as incline. So, reclining means leaning or lying back.