Word Meanings - PENDULOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary. (more info) 1. Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging. Shak. "The pendulous round earth. Milton. 2. Wavering; unstable;

Additional info about word: PENDULOUS

Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary. (more info) 1. Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging. Shak. "The pendulous round earth. Milton. 2. Wavering; unstable; doubtful. "A pendulous state of mind." Atterbury.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PENDULOUS)

• Pendent
• Pendulous
• hanging
• suspended
• drooping
• projecting

Related words: (words related to PENDULOUS)

• HANGNAIL
  A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• DROOPINGLY
  In a drooping manner.
• PENDULOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being pendulous; the state of hanging loosely; pendulosity.
• HANGER
  1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. 2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust.
• HANGDOG
  A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
• PROJECTURE
  A jutting out beyond a surface.
• HANG
  Hanging. The use of hanged is preferable to that of hung, when reference is had to death or execution by suspension, and it is also i., fr. h, v. t. ; akin to OS. hang, v. i. D. hangen, v. t. & i., G. hangen, v. i, hängen, v. t, Isel hanga, v.
• PENDENTLY
  In a pendent manner.
• PENDULOUSLY
  In a pendulous manner.
• HANGMAN
  One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. Shak.
• PENDENTIVE
  The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola. The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel.
• PROJECTOR
  One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.
• HANG-BY
  A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt. B. Jonson.
• SUSPEND
  To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action. To suspend payment , to cease paying debts or obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc. Syn. -- To hang; interrupt; delay; intermit; stay;
• HANGER-ON
  One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted. Goldsmith.
• PROJECTILE
  1. Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force. 2. Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion. Arbuthnot.
• HANGING
  1. Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!" Dryden. 2. Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. 3. Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• FILIPENDULOUS
  Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• UNHANG
  1. To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room. 2. To remove from that which supports it; as, to unhang a gate.
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
• WHANGHEE
  See WANGHEE
• DISAPPENDENT
  Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected.
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• INTERDEPENDENT
  Mutually dependent.
• DEPENDENT
  1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;