Pendulous

//ˈpɛndjʊləs// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Hanging from, or as if from, a support.

    "The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as "a woman holding a bison horn." With her large pendulous breasts, great stomach, and immense hips, this Paleolithic Madonna is of a type found with countless other figurines in excavations from Spain to the Soviet Union."

  2. 2
    Indecisive or hesitant
  3. 3
    Having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping
Adjective
  1. 1
    having branches or flower heads that bend downward wordnet

Synonyms

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cascadingcernuousdanglingdependentdependingdown-gyved

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"The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as "a woman holding a bison horn." With her large pendulous breasts, great stomach, and immense hips, this Paleolithic Madonna is of a type found with countless other figurines in excavations from Spain to the Soviet Union."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pendulus (“pendant”), from pendeō (“I hang”).

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