Meanings
comparative more pendulous · superlative most pendulous
- 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 103Synonyms: suspended
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHanging from, or as if from, a support.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivehaving branches or flower heads that bend downward
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinpendulus“pendant”
- Englishpendulous
Borrowed from Latin pendulus (“pendant”), from pendeō (“to hang”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian висящ, увиснал
- висящ (visjašt)hanging down
- увиснал (uvisnal)hanging down
Finnish riippuva, roikkuva
- riippuvahanging down
- roikkuvahanging down
Latin pendulus
- pendulushanging down
Māori hāwere, hauwere
- hāwerehanging down
- hauwerehanging down
Polish zwisający, wiszący
- zwisającyhanging down
- wiszącyhanging down
Spanish péndulo
- péndulohanging down
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pendulous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pendulous
“pendulous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pendulous. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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