'Drooping' definitions:
Definition of 'drooping'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Drooping'
From: GCIDE
- Droop \Droop\ (dr[=oo]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.] [Icel. dr[=u]pa; akin to E. drop. See Drop.]
- 1. To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. "The purple flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped. [1913 Webster]
- I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. "Then day drooped." --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'drooping'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anemic,
- asthenic,
- bagging,
- baggy,
- ballooning,
- bloodless,
- bowed-down,
- cast down,
- chicken,
- collapsing,
- coming apart,
- cowardly,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- dangling,
- dashed,
- debilitated,
- decadent,
- deciduous,
- declining,
- declivitous,
- decurrent,
- degenerate,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- descendant,
- descending,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- deteriorating,
- discouraged,
- disheartened,
- disintegrating,
- dispirited,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- downcast,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downhearted,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- draining,
- droopy,
- dropping,
- dull,
- dwindling,
- easy,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- etiolated,
- fading,
- fagged,
- failing,
- faint,
- fainting,
- faintish,
- falling,
- fatigued,
- feeble,
- feeling faint,
- feeling low,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- flagging,
- flapping,
- floppy,
- footsore,
- fragmenting,
- frazzled,
- going to pieces,
- gone,
- good and tired,
- gutless,
- hanging,
- heartless,
- hypochondriac,
- hypochondriacal,
- imbecile,
- impotent,
- in low spirits,
- in the depths,
- in the doldrums,
- in the dumps,
- jaded,
- languid,
- languishing,
- languorous,
- lax,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- loose,
- lop,
- lop-eared,
- loppy,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- lustless,
- marcescent,
- marrowless,
- nerveless,
- nodding,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- pessimistic,
- pining,
- pithless,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- ready to drop,
- regressive,
- relaxed,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- rickety,
- rubbery,
- run ragged,
- run-down,
- sagging,
- sagging in folds,
- saggy,
- sapless,
- seedy,
- setting,
- shaky,
- shriveling,
- sinewless,
- sinking,
- slack,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- sloppy,
- slumping,
- soft,
- spineless,
- spiritless,
- streaming,
- strengthless,
- subdued,
- submerging,
- subsiding,
- suicidal,
- swag,
- tabetic,
- tired,
- tired-winged,
- toilworn,
- tottering,
- tumbledown,
- unhardened,
- unnerved,
- unrefreshed,
- unrestored,
- unstrung,
- waning,
- wasting,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weak,
- weakened,
- weakly,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary of life,
- weary-footed,
- weary-laden,
- weary-winged,
- weary-worn,
- wilting,
- withering,
- woebegone,
- world-weary,
- worn,
- worn-down,
- worsening