In her latest works she lets the uncanny swing like a grotesque pendulum from the humorous into homelike cosiness and back again.
Source: tatoeba (1248084)
Pendulum
//ˈpɛnd͡ʒələm//
Synonyms for "pendulum" (77 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (38)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
2 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
is a
1 entriesrelated to
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
Translations
82 translations across 62 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- lavjerrës noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Arabic
3 entries- بَنْدُول noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- رَقَّاص noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- نُوَاس noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Armenian
1 entries- ճոճանակ noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kəfgir noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Basque
1 entries- pendulu noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Belarusian
1 entries- ма́ятнік noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Bulgarian
1 entries- маха́ло noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Burmese
1 entries- ချိန်သီး noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Catalan
1 entries- pèndol noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 擺 /摆 noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- 擺鐘 /摆钟 noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- 鐘擺 /钟摆 noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Czech
1 entries- kyvadlo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Danish
1 entries- pendul noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Dutch
1 entries- slinger noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Esperanto
1 entries- pendolo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Estonian
1 entries- pendel noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Finnish
1 entries- heiluri noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
French
1 entries- pendule noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Galician
1 entries- péndulo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Georgian
1 entries- ქანქარა noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
German
1 entries- Pendel noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Greek
1 entries- εκκρεμές noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Hebrew
1 entries- מְטוּטֶלֶת noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Hindi
3 entries- दोलक noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- लंगर noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- लोलक noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Hungarian
1 entries- inga noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Icelandic
4 entries- dingull noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- hengill noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- kólfur noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- pendúll noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Ido
1 entries- pendulo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Indonesian
1 entries- bandul noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Italian
1 entries- pendolo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Japanese
1 entries- 振り子 noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Kazakh
1 entries- маятник noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Khmer
2 entries- បណ្ដូន noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- ប៉ោល noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Korean
1 entries- 진자 noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- маятник noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Lao
1 entries- ໝາກກະໂຕ້ນ noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Latin
1 entries- pendulum noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Latvian
1 entries- svārsts noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Lithuanian
2 entries- svyruoklė noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- švytuoklė noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Macedonian
1 entries- нишало noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Malay
1 entries- bandul noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Mongolian
2 entries- дүүжин noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- ᠳᠡᠭᠦᠵᠢᠩ noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Māori
1 entries- tārere noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- pendel noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- رقاص noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Persian
3 entries- آونگ noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- رقاصک noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- پاندول noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Polish
1 entries- wahadło noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Portuguese
1 entries- pêndulo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Romanian
1 entries- pendul noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Russian
1 entries- ма́ятник noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- klátno noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- кла́тно noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Slovak
1 entries- kyvadlo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Slovene
1 entries- nihalo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Spanish
1 entries- péndulo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Swedish
1 entries- pendel noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Tajik
2 entries- ованг noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- раққосак noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Thai
1 entries- ลูกตุ้ม noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Turkish
3 entries- pandül noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- rakkas noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- sarkaç noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Turkmen
1 entries- maýatnik noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Ukrainian
2 entries- вага́дло noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- ма́ятник noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Uyghur
1 entries- ماياتنىك noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Uzbek
1 entries- mayatnik noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Vietnamese
2 entries- con lắc noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
- quả lắc noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Volapük
1 entries- pendül noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Not a great deal of energy is required for keeping a free moving pendulum in a state of oscillation.
Source: tatoeba (5427825)
He reached into the case and stopped the pendulum.
Source: tatoeba (5534887)
The pendulum swung back and forth.
Source: tatoeba (6980534)
Showing 4 of 11 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.