Drooping

Definition: Drooping

Drooping

Adjective

1. Weak from exhaustion.

2. Hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness).

3. (biology) having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "drooping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Drooping

Dejection

Noun: dejection; dejectedness; Adjective: depression, prosternation; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking; heaviness of heart, failure of heart.

Disease

Unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced. drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.

Fatigue

Adjective: fatigued, tired; Verb: weary; drowsy; drooping; Verb: haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed ; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored.

Weakness

Frail, fragile, shattery; flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky; craichy; drooping, tottering; Verb:.

Crosswords: Drooping

This is a cartoon from Harper's Weekly circa 1890. It shows an office worker, whose smoking cigar is drooping from his mouth, reading a sign on the wall: "No Smoking In Offices During Office Hours". The caption reads: "another civic-service outrage. Less smoke and more fire". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.

Jean Valjean tottered, let the blotter fall, and sank down into the old armchair by the sideboard, his head drooping, his eye glassy, bewildered.

So butchers rake the tongues of bison out of the prairie grass, regardless of the torn and drooping plant.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Symptoms usually include double vision, blurred vision, drooping eyelids, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing, dry mouth, and muscle weakness. (references)

Although some may experience side effects such as drooping eyelids, blurred or double vision, and eye dryness, these side effects are usually only temporary. (references)

The classic symptoms of botulism include double vision, blurred vision, drooping eyelids, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing, dry mouth, and muscle weakness. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "drooping": drooping brome ♦ drooping ears ♦ drooping juniper ♦ drooping restrainer ♦ P coeruleum having corymbs of drooping flowers usually blue Gray ♦ polemonium coeruleum having corymbs of drooping flowers usually blue Gray. Additional references.

Beginning with "drooping": drooping-moustached.

Ending with "drooping": forward-drooping.

Albanian

venitje (fading, wane). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تذلل (cringe, cringing, draggle, droop, grovel, lick his boots, obsequiousness, subservience), ‏إنحناء (bend, bowing, crook, crouch, curvature, dipping, duck, stoop, tendency), ‏إنخفاض (depression, reduction, run down, sag, slide, slip). (various references)

Bulgarian 

повяхнал (faded, withered, worn), повиснал (hanging down). (various references)

Chinese 

下垂 (Drooped, Flagged, flagging, Sagged, sagging). (various references)

Czech

vadnoucí, splihlý, skleslý (broody, cheerless, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, downcast, down-hearted, limp). (various references)

Danish

svejsetransformer med faldende karakteristik (single operator welding transformer, welding transformer with drooping characteristic), svejsedynamo med faldende karakteristik (arc welding generator with drooping characteristic), stigende karakteristik (drooping characteristic). (various references)

Dutch

dalende karakteristiek (drooping characteristic), lastransformator met dalende karakteristiek (single operator welding transformer, welding transformer with drooping characteristic), lasgenerator met dalende karakteristiek (arc welding generator with drooping characteristic), knikkende vogelmelk (drooping star-of-Bethlehem), gelijkstroomlasgenerator met dalende karakteristiek (arc welding generator with drooping characteristic), bladaanslag (droop restrainer, droop stop, drooping restrainer). (various references)

Finnish

pää riipuksissa (with drooping head), pää painuneena (with drooping head), lerppahuulinen (with drooping lips), lerppa (with drooping lips), laskevan ominaiskäyrän omaava hitsausmuuntaja (single operator welding transformer, welding transformer with drooping characteristic), laskeva kierroskäyrä (drooping characteristic). (various references)

French

tombant (droopy), qui commence � se faner, penchée. (various references)

German

schlaff (baggy, exhausted, flabbily, flabby, flaccid, flaccidly, floppily, floppy, lax, limp, limply, listless, loose, shattered, slack, slacky, soft, torpid, worn out), erschlaffung (flagging, limpness, slackness, tiredness, waning, weariness). (various references)

Greek 

στεφάνη στήριξης πτερυγίων (droop restrainer, droop stop, drooping restrainer), γεννήτρια συγκόλλησης τόξου (arc welding generator with drooping characteristic), μετασχηματιστής ηλεκτροσυγκολλήσεως τόξου με χαρακτηριστική σταθερής εντάσεως (single operator welding transformer, welding transformer with drooping characteristic), χαρακτηριστική καμπύλη πτώσεως (drooping characteristic), αναστολέας χαμηλώματος πτερυγίων (droop restrainer, droop stop, drooping restrainer). (various references)

Hebrew 

שפיפ�" (bending, crouching, droop, stoop), שחיח�" (droop), � ביל�" (droop, fading, wilting, withering). (various references)

Hungarian

hervadás (droop, wilt, wilting, withering). (various references)

Italian

cascante (baggy, flabby, sagging). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

下垂 (hanging down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かすい (add water, hanging down, nap, river water, siesta, spike, stream). (various references)

Manx

kione my laaee (descending, drooping end, headlong, slanting). (various references)

Pig Latin

oopingdray

Portuguese

variaçao da voltagem com a carga (drooping characteristic), transformador com característica tombante (single operator welding transformer, welding transformer with drooping characteristic), moderador de queda (droop restrainer, droop stop, drooping restrainer). (various references)

Romanian

moleşit (drowsy, dull, enervate, flabby, flaccid, tired, weak), bleg (blockhead, dolt, flabby, flaccid, foolish, half hearted, remiss, sheepish, shy, silly, skulker, sloppy, sluggish, timid, weak, weakly). (various references)

Scottish

grùig (a drooping attitude), gleog (a drooping), giùig (a drooping of the head). (various references)

Spanish

marchito (dead, droopy, overblown, sear, sere, shrivelled, withered, wizened), gacho (droopy), caído (crestfallen, droopy, fallen, lapsed). (various references)

Swedish

svetstransformator med fallande karakteristik (single operator welding transformer, welding transformer with drooping characteristic), svetstransformator med fallande belastningskurva (single operator welding transformer, welding transformer with drooping characteristic), fallande karakteristik (drooping characteristic). (various references)

Turkish

solgun (anaemic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bloodless, colorless, colourless, doughy, faded, mealy, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan), sarkık (bagging, baggy, beetle, droopy, flabby, flaccid, floppy, hanging, pendant, pendent, pensile, slouching, slouchy), halsiz (droopy, exhausted, faint, groggy, infirm, languid, languorous, prostrate, run down, senile, sluggish, very tired, washy, weak, weakly, wonky), gevşek (airy, crank, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, halfhearted, laidback, lax, limp, listless, loose, nonrigid, non-rigid, slack, slouching, slouchy, supine, unstuck), eğik (bevel, droopy, inclined, leaning, oblique, on the slope, skewed, slanting, sloping, threshold), bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked). (various references)

Ukrainian

знесилений (all out, bleeding, careworn, effete, far gone, harassed, overcome). (various references)

Vietnamese 

gục xuống ủ rũ; chán nản, cúi xuống; rũ xuống. (various references)

pallens. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "drooping": droopingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Drooping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: droping, dropnik. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: doping, drongo, indoor, pongid, poring, roping.

-3 letters: dingo, doing, donor, droop, gipon, giron, grind, groin, oping, orpin, pingo, pirog, poind, poori, porno, prion, prong, rondo.

-4 letters: ding, dong, door, dorp, drip, drop, gird, girn, giro, good, goon, goop, gorp, grid, grin, grip, inro, iron, nodi, noir, nori, odor, ordo, ping, pion, pirn, pond.

+2 letters: droopingly, springwood, torpedoing.

+3 letters: coproducing, outdropping, propounding, springwoods.

+4 letters: gonadotropic, gonadotropin, nonproducing, outproducing, proofreading.

+5 letters: childproofing, corresponding, gonadotrophic, gonadotrophin, gonadotropins, overproducing, photoreducing, soundproofing.