Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Hanging loosely; suspended so as to swing or sway.
- adj. Wavering; undecided.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Hanging loosely or swinging freely from a fixed point above; hanging; swinging; loosely pendent: as, pendulous ears.
- In zoology, specifically applied — To the pensile nests of birds, which hang like a purse or pouch from the support.
- To the penis, clitoris, or scrotum when loosely hanging from the perineum or abdomen, as in various monkeys, marsupials, etc.
- In botany, same as pendent, more especially when the flexure is from weakness of the support.
- In suspense; wavering; doubting; undecided.
Wiktionary
- adj. hanging as if from a support
- adj. indecisive or hesitant
- adj. biology having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging.
- adj. rare Wavering; unstable; doubtful.
- adj. (Bot.) Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having branches or flower heads that bend downward
Etymologies
- From Latin pendulus, from pendēre, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“She continued tirelessly, painting with pessimistic strokes the growing black future her husband was meditating for her, while the boy, fearful of some vague, incomprehensible catastrophe, began to weep silently, with a pendulous, trembling underlip.”
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“With the first full puff of the smoke he gave over his moans and yelps, the agitation began to fade out of him, and Daughtry, appreciatively waiting, saw the trembling go out of his hands, the pendulous lip-quivering cease, the saliva stop flowing from the corners of his mouth, and placidity come into the fiery remnants of his eyes.”
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