Prostrate vs Antical - What's the difference?
prostrate | antical |
Lying flat, facedown.
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Emotionally devastated.
Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
(botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
(senseid)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.
To throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively).
To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.
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(botany) Oriented towards the apex.
(botany) Of or pertaining to the surface of a prostrate thallus that is oriented away from the substrate.
In botany terms the difference between prostrate and antical
is that prostrate is trailing on the ground; procumbent while antical is of or pertaining to the surface of a prostrate thallus that is oriented away from the substrate.As adjectives the difference between prostrate and antical
is that prostrate is lying flat, facedown while antical is oriented towards the apex.As a verb prostrate
is (to lie flat or facedown)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.prostrate
English
Adjective
(-)- Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
- Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
- I told him you was prostrate with grief.'' — Mammy to Scarlett, ''Gone With the Wind .
- He was prostrate from the extreme heat.