pendulous
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- adjective
- /ˈpɛndjələs/
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penduloso
- Night's face was hideously red, the pendulous fat of his chin rippling as he shook his head back and forth.
- pendulous breasts
Examples
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Three clay figurines of the Goddess lie like sunbathers with pendulous breasts and swollen bellies offered up to the shameless sky.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's true there were dark storm clouds... heavy, black and pendulous, toward which they were driving.
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His ears, big and pendulous, hung like burdens on his head.
Fiction book (1999) -
Japan's historical modernization process has been pendulous, vacillating first toward the West, then back to the more familiar East.
Academic text (1991) -
The pendulous lobe of the left was hung with a lizard's foot, the right with a glass owl's eye.
Fiction book (1993) -
Slowly he brushed the crumbs of seedy cake from the folds of his pendulous waistcoat.
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We were reading the sign by the orangutan cage, and the orangutan, who was an old female with wrinkled, pendulous breasts, came up to the corner of the cage where we were, and she was looking at Myrrena's feet.
Fiction book (1998) -
Lonnie Spikes, a twenty-year-old simpleton, elicited clucking sounds and slow, pendulous swings of the head.
Fiction book (2001) -
In the garden, the pendulous branches of the weeping willow sway gently in the breeze.
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The pendulous flowers of the cherry tree droop beautifully in the spring sun.
Synonyms
Bending or hanging down like plant stems and flower heads
Hanging down from above
A plant part that bends down, like a flower head
Hanging down because it is weak or not held up
Having long branches that hang down like a willow tree
Antonyms
How Droopy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word pendulous comes from the old Latin verb pendere, which means 'to hang'. Think of a pendant on a necklace that hangs down, so pendulous means hanging down loosely or drooping.