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droopy

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈdɹuːpi/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -uːpi
  • CMU ARPABET: D R UW1 P IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Tending to droop; sagging; wilting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: drooping, sagging

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English drupi, from drup (“sad”), from Old Norse drúpr (“drooping sadness”); related to Middle English drupen, droupen (“to sag, droop”), also from Old Norse. By surface analysis, droop + -y.

Across languages

Translations

12 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Azerbaijani: asılı — sagging
  • French: tombant — sagging
  • French: abattu — sagging
  • French: fané — sagging
  • Macedonian: сви́снат (svísnat) — sagging
  • Māori: mohemohe — sagging
  • Plautdietsch: schlaup — sagging
  • Polish: oklapnięty — sagging
  • Polish: zwisający — sagging
  • Polish: opadający — sagging
  • Spanish: caído — sagging
  • Spanish: colgón — sagging