| Main Entry: | droop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hang down; languish |
Synonyms: |
bend, dangle, decline, depress, diminish, drop, fade, fail, faint, fall down, flag, lean, let down, loll, lop, sag, settle, sink, sling, slouch, slump, subside, suspend, weaken, wilt, wither |
Antonyms: |
inflate, rise |
| Main Entry: | drooping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hanging or weak |
Synonyms: |
cernuous, enervated, flaccid, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lethargic, limp, nutant |
Antonyms: |
upright |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form or cause a curve |
Synonyms: |
angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | bent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curved |
Synonyms: |
angled, arced, arched, arciform, bowed, contorted, crooked, curvilinear, doubled over, drooping, droopy, hooked, humped, hunched, inclined, limp, looped, round, rounded, sinuous, slouchy, slumped, stooped, twined, twisted, warped, wilted |
Antonyms: |
straight |
| Main Entry: | bow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend over |
Synonyms: |
arch, bob, cower, crook, curtsy, curve, debase, dip, do obeisance, droop, duck, genuflect, hunch, incline, nod, round, stoop |
| Main Entry: | collapse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall apart, break down |
Synonyms: |
belly up, bend, break, cave in, conk out, crack up, crumple, deflate, disintegrate, droop, drop, exhaust, fail, faint, fall down, flag, flake out, fold, founder, give, give in, give out, give way, go to pieces, go*, keel over, languish, shatter, subside, succumb, tire, topple, weaken, weary, wilt, yield |
Antonyms: |
build, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | dangle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suspend |
Synonyms: |
brandish, depend, droop, entice, flap, flaunt, flourish, hang, hang down, lure, sling, sway, swing, tantalize, tempt, trail, wave |
| Main Entry: | dangling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supported from above |
Synonyms: |
drooping, droopy, hanging, pendent, pendulous, suspended |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lessen, become less |
Synonyms: |
abate, backslide, cheapen, decay, decrease, degenerate, depreciate, deteriorate, diminish, disimprove, disintegrate, droop, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fail, fall, fall off, flag, go downhill, go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, languish, lapse, lose value, lower, pine, recede, relapse, retrograde, return, revert, rot, sag, settle, shrink, sink, slide, subside, wane, weaken, worsen |
| Notes: | one declines (or accepts) something that is offered; one refuses (or agrees) to accept something offered |
Antonyms: |
improve, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend |
Synonyms: |
dip, droop, drop, fall, go down, lower, sag, set, settle, sink, slant, slope |
Antonyms: |
ascend, go up, rise |