drooping's Usage Examples:

It is about the size of an ordinary apple tree, with small leaves like the willow, and a drooping habit like a weeping birch, and has an edible fruit like a yellow plum called " mangaba," for which, rather than for the rubber, the tree is cultivated in some districts.

The flowers are large, yellow, scented and a little drooping, with a corolla deeply cleft into six lobes and a bell-shaped corona which is crisped at the margin; they appear in March or April.

Stately erect-growing plants, with long racemes of pouch-shaped drooping flowers.

With drooping head Princess Mary left the crowd and went back to the house.

Destiny's eyelids kept drooping and then she would open her eyes wide as if afraid she might miss something good.

At a later period, however, a papyrus was cultivated in Sicily, which has been identified by Parlatore with the Syrian variety (Cyperus syriacus), far exceeding in height the Egyptian plant, and having a more drooping head.

But Osman remained firm in his allegiance, and by repeated victories over the Greeks revived the drooping glories of his suzerain.

The tomato plants were drooping, their crop reduced to small discolored fruit.

high, with drooping white flowers.

They all went away silently and with drooping heads.

Synonyms:

cernuous, nodding, weeping, pendulous, unerect,

Antonyms:

diligent, constipated, tight, joyful, erect,