accumbent
/əˈkʌm.bənt/
accumbent adjective: leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
Adjective
accumbent (comparative more accumbent, superlative most accumbent)
- Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
- Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied.1998, Anne Markham Schulz, Giammaria Mosca called Padovano: a Renaissance sculptor in Italy and Poland, →ISBN, page 136
- Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf
- Distinguished from other genera, with accumbent cotyledons, in the same class and order, by the entire, nearly equal petals; and the dehiscent, nearly entirely pouch, of 2, 1- or many-seeded cells, a broad dissepiment (septum), and nearly flat valves.1840, William Baxter, British phænogamous botany, volume 5
Noun
accumbent (plural accumbents)
- One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table.
- What a pennance must be done by every accumbent, in sitting out the passage through all these dishes; what a task the stomach must be put to in the concoction of so many mixtures.1630, Bishop Joseph Hall, Occasional Meditations
- Let us, indeed, see how the point of view has changed which was held in regard to those cultivated and glib accumbents who in former days were taken for real social workers.1903, “What Is Oblomovisn”, in Leo Wiener, editor, Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the, translation of original by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Dobrolyubov, page 275
accumbent meaning in Tamil and Urdu
accumbent in Tamil
- சாய்கின்ற
accumbent in Urdu
- جھُکا ہُوا, خَمیدَہ
Forms of accumbent
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more accumbent |
| superlative | most accumbent |
| Noun | |
| plural | accumbents |
Origin of accumbent
From Latin accumbō (“recline”), from ad- (“to”) + *cumbō (“recline”).
Words formed from accumbent
Questions about accumbent
- What does accumbent mean?
- Accumbent means leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
- What is accumbent in Tamil?
- Accumbent in Tamil is சாய்கின்ற. See Accumbent meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is accumbent?
- Accumbent can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce accumbent?
- Accumbent is pronounced /əˈkʌm.bənt/.
Words near accumbent in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: accumbent (page history and authors); accumbent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accumbent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “accumbent.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/accumbent. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.