'Nodding' definitions:
Definition of 'nodding'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Nodding'
From: GCIDE
- Nodding \Nod"ding\, a. Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Nodding'
From: GCIDE
- Nod \Nod\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nodded; p. pr. & vb. n. Nodding.]
- 1. To incline or bend, as the head or top; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness with; as, to nod the head. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To signify by a nod; as, to nod approbation. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cause to bend. [Poetic] [1913 Webster]
- By every wind that nods the mountain pine. --Keats. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nodding'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absent,
- absentminded,
- absorbed,
- abstracted,
- anesthetized,
- asleep,
- bagging,
- baggy,
- ballooning,
- bemused,
- castle-building,
- casual,
- cataleptic,
- comatose,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- distant,
- doped,
- dozy,
- dreaming,
- dreamy,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- drowsing,
- drowsy,
- drugged,
- drugged with sleep,
- ecstatic,
- elsewhere,
- engrossed,
- faraway,
- floppy,
- goofing off,
- half asleep,
- half-awake,
- heavy,
- heavy with sleep,
- heavy-eyed,
- in a reverie,
- in a stupor,
- in the clouds,
- incautious,
- incomplete,
- languid,
- lethargic,
- limp,
- loose,
- lop,
- lop-eared,
- loppy,
- lost,
- lost in thought,
- meditative,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- museful,
- musing,
- napping,
- narcoleptic,
- narcose,
- narcotized,
- narcous,
- oblivious,
- off-guard,
- oscitant,
- out of it,
- pensive,
- pipe-dreaming,
- preoccupied,
- rapt,
- sagging,
- sagging in folds,
- saggy,
- sedated,
- sleep-drowned,
- sleep-drunk,
- sleep-filled,
- sleep-swollen,
- sleepful,
- sleeping,
- sleepy,
- slight,
- slumberous,
- slumbery,
- snoozy,
- somewhere else,
- somnolent,
- soporific,
- stargazing,
- stretchy,
- stuporose,
- stuporous,
- superficial,
- swag,
- taken up,
- transported,
- unalert,
- uncautious,
- unconscious,
- unguarded,
- unprepared,
- unready,
- unvigilant,
- unwary,
- unwatchful,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in thought,
- yawning,
- yawny