droopingly

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adverb

In a drooping manner.

“The wilted flowers emerged droopingly from their vase.”

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Meanings

adverbdroopingly (comparative more droopingly, superlative most droopingly)

comparative more droopingly · superlative most droopingly

  1. In a drooping manner.

    The wilted flowers emerged droopingly from their vase.

    1 more example

    When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see No cliff beyond him in the sky, His pinions were bent droopingly — And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.

    1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems

Origin

From drooping + -ly.

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Cite this entry
APA

droopingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/droopingly

MLA

“droopingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/droopingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “droopingly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/droopingly.

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