Droopy

//ˈdɹuːpi// adj

adj ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to droop; sagging; wilting.
Adjective
  1. 1
    hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) wordnet

Synonyms

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droopinganemicapatheticasthenicbaggingbaggy

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"Groups of excursionists, arrayed in unattractive traveling costumes, were moping about in a drizzling rain and looking as droopy and woebegone as so many molting chickens."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English drupi, from drup (“sad”), from Old Norse drúpr (“drooping sadness”); related to Middle English drupen, droupen (“to sag, droop”), also from Old Norse. By surface analysis, droop + -y.

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