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recumbent

recumbent adjective: lying down.

recumbent: lying down
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Adjective

recumbent (comparative more recumbent, superlative most recumbent)

  1. Lying down.
  2. Inactive; idle.

Noun

recumbent (plural recumbents)

  1. A bicycle or tricycle that places the rider in a reclined posture.
  2. A large rectangular monolith lying on its side, typically flanked by two large upright stones, the flankers; found in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.

recumbent meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

recumbent in Tamil

கிடைநிலை, படுக்கை நிலை

recumbent in Bengali

শয়ান, হেলান দেওয়া

recumbent in Malayalam

stretched out, lying, flat
ചാഞ്ഞുകിടക്കുന്ന, ചരിഞ്ഞു കിടക്കുന്ന, ചായുന്ന, ശയ, ശയിക്കുന്ന, സന്ന

recumbent in Kannada

ಮಲಗಿದ, ಮಯ್ಚಾಚಿದ, ಒರಗಿಕುಳಿತ
More languagesFewer languages
recumbent in Indonesian
sepeda berbaring
recumbent in Persian
دراز کشیده derâz kešide

Synonyms of recumbent

Forms of recumbent

Adjective
comparativemore recumbent
superlativemost recumbent
Noun
pluralrecumbents

Origin of recumbent

From Latin present participle recumbēns, from recumbō (“to recline”).

Words formed from recumbent

Phrases with recumbent

Questions about recumbent

What does recumbent mean?
Recumbent means lying down.
What is recumbent in Tamil?
Recumbent in Tamil is கிடைநிலை, படுக்கை நிலை. See Recumbent meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is recumbent?
Recumbent can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near recumbent in the dictionary

  1. recumbed
  2. recumbence
  3. recumbences
  4. recumbencies
  5. recumbency
  6. recumbent
  7. recumbent bicycle
  8. recumbent bicycles
  9. recumbent stone circle
  10. recumbent stone circles
  11. recumbently

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: recumbent (page history and authors); recumbent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recumbent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recumbent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); recumbent (Kannada 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.

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