pendulous

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Pronunciation

/ˈpɛndjʊləs/(UK)

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/ˈpɛndjʊləs/(UK) · /ˈpɛndʒʊləs/(UK) · /ˈpɛndʒələs/(US) · /ˈpɛndjələs/(US)

Definition of pendulous

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

Hanging from, or as if from, a support.

“The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as "a woman holding a bison horn." With her large pendulous breasts, great stomach, and immense hips, this Paleolithic Madonna is of a type found with countless other figurines in excavations from Spain to the Soviet Union.”

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adj

Hanging from, or as if from, a support.

“The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as "a woman holding a bison horn." With her large pendulous breasts, great stomach, and immense hips, this Paleolithic Madonna is of a type found with countless other figurines in excavations from Spain to the Soviet Union.”
Indecisive or hesitant
Having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping

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Borrowed from Latin pendulus (“pendant”), from pendeō (“to hang”).

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