droopingly

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English

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Etymology

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From drooping +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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droopingly (comparative more droopingly, superlative most droopingly)

  1. In a drooping manner.
    The wilted flowers emerged droopingly from their vase.
    • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
      When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see
      No cliff beyond him in the sky,
      His pinions were bent droopingly
      And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.