Dictionary

pendulous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɛndjələs/ (US)
• /ˈpɛndjʊləs/ (UK)
• /ˈpɛndʒələs/ (US)
• /ˈpɛndʒʊləs/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. 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. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103:
2. Indecisive or hesitant
3. Having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping

Forms

Deriveds

pendulously · pendulousness · pendulous abdomen

Relateds

pendant · pendulum

Synonyms

suspended

Translations (10)

es péndulo (hanging down) · pl wiszący (hanging down) · mi hauwere (hanging down) · la pendulus (hanging down) · pl zwisający (hanging down) · mi hāwere (hanging down) · fi roikkuva (hanging down) · bg увиснал (hanging down) · bg висящ (hanging down) · fi riippuva (hanging down)