Definition of Drooping

1. Adjective. Weak from exhaustion.

Exact synonyms: Flagging
Similar to: Tired

2. Adjective. Hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness).
Exact synonyms: Droopy, Sagging
Similar to: Lax
Derivative terms: Droop

3. Adjective. Having branches or flower heads that bend downward. "Lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"
Exact synonyms: Cernuous, Nodding, Pendulous, Weeping
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Similar to: Unerect

Definition of Drooping

1. Verb. (present participle of droop) ¹

2. Noun. An instance of something drooping ¹

3. Adjective. That droops or droop. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Drooping

1. droop [v] - See also: droop

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drooping

droolingly
drools
drooly
droome
droomes
droop
drooped
drooper
droopers
droopest
droopeth
droopier
droopiest
droopily
droopiness
drooping (current term)
drooping brome
drooping juniper
drooping lily sign
droopingly
droopings
droops
droopy
drop
drop-back
drop-backs
drop-ball
drop-dead
drop-down
drop-down list

Literary usage of Drooping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1874)
"In the former the drooping twigs and branches commence low down, and produce an effect at once ... Among drooping trees the common White Birch holds no mean ..."

2. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"V OF THE MAN WITH THE drooping LIDS MY mother and my father were sitting in their high-backed chairs on either side of the empty fireplace when we arrived, ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(SO) exciting the compassion of the soldiers, endeavoured to animate their drooping courage. Antoninus himself, who, in the rest of his life, ..."

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