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pendulous

Syllables: pen·du·lous/ˈpɛndjʊləs/US/ˈpɛndʒələs/

pendulous adjective: hanging from, or as if from, a support.

Adjective

pendulous (comparative more pendulous, superlative most pendulous)

  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
    Synonyms:
    suspended
  2. Indecisive or hesitant
  3. Having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping

pendulous meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

pendulous in Tamil

தொங்கல், தொங்கு, தொங்குதல், தொங்கு மஞ்சரி, தொங்கு சூல்

pendulous in Malayalam

dangling, drooping, trailing
ദോലനം ചെയ്യുന്ന, ലംബ, ലംബി, ലംബിത, തൂങ്ങിക്കിടക്കുന്ന, ഉല്ലംബി

Synonyms of pendulous

Forms of pendulous

comparativemore pendulous
superlativemost pendulous

Origin of pendulous

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

Words formed from pendulous

Phrases with pendulous

Questions about pendulous

What does pendulous mean?
Pendulous means hanging from, or as if from, a support.
What is pendulous in Tamil?
Pendulous in Tamil is தொங்கல், தொங்கு, தொங்குதல். See Pendulous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pendulous?
Pendulous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce pendulous?
Pendulous is pronounced /ˈpɛndjʊləs/ (UK).

Words near pendulous in the dictionary

  1. penduline tits
  2. pendulines
  3. pendulose
  4. pendulosities
  5. pendulosity
  6. pendulous
  7. pendulous abdomen
  8. pendulous abdomens
  9. pendulously
  10. pendulousness
  11. pendulum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pendulous (page history and authors); pendulous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pendulous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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