DROOPING

cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping

(adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward; “nodding daffodils”; “the pendulous branches of a weeping willow”; “lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers”

drooping, droopy, sagging

(adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)

drooping, flagging

(adjective) weak from exhaustion

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

drooping

present participle of droop

Noun

drooping (plural droopings)

An instance of something drooping.

Adjective

drooping (comparative more drooping, superlative most drooping)

That droops or droop.

drooping flowers

Source: Wiktionary

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DROOP

Droop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.] Etym: [Icel. dr; 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. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.

2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped. I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage. Addison.

3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. "Then day drooped." Tennyson.

Droop, v. t.

Definition: To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold. Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak.

Droop, n.

Definition: A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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