Proneness: alternatives and connections

Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.

One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms.

Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.

Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance.

A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.

A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beas…

The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to,…

Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.

The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to…

Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the sam…

Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.

The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; devi…

A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity.

To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carr…

To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment,…

Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.