Drooping Synonyms and Antonyms

Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wilting
  2. wilt
  3. sagging
  4. flagging
Hang loosely or laxly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. hanging
  2. sagging
  3. wilting
  4. languishing
  5. slouching
  6. sinking
  7. withering
  8. stooping
  9. slumping
  10. lolling
  11. lowering
  12. flagging
  13. lopping
  14. fainting
  15. fading
  16. dropping
  17. diminishing
  18. declining
  19. dangling
  20. bending
  21. flopping
Antonyms:
  1. rising
  2. inflating
Hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. cernuous
  2. enervated
  3. flaccid
  4. flagging
  5. sagging
  6. lackadaisical
  7. languid
  8. languorous
  9. lethargic
  10. limp
  11. nutant
  12. droopy
Having branches or flower heads that bend downward
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. cernuous
  2. nodding
  3. pendulous
  4. weeping
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. flaccidity
  2. languor
  3. lethargy

Words Related to Drooping

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Drooping Sentence Examples

  • They all went away silently and with drooping heads.

  • The tomato plants were drooping, their crop reduced to small discolored fruit.

  • The spreading branches of the wild crab apple often have a slightly drooping habit.

  • My sunflowers are now drooping and I wish to take seeds from them.

  • The weak heads are not weak, not drooping, not dropping.

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