Entry Word: nodding

Function: adjective

Meaning: bending downward or forward <some students, with nodding heads, were falling asleep during the boring lecture>

Synonyms bowed, bowing, declined, declining, descendant (or descendent), descending, drooping, droopy, hanging, hung (also hanged), inclining, pendulous, sagging, stooping

Related Words floppy, limp; dangling, falling, pendent (or pendant), suspended; dipping, sinking, slumping

Near Antonyms erect, inflexible, rigid, stiff; elevated, raised, upraised

Antonyms unbending, upright