droopingly
English
Etymology
drooping + -ly
Adverb
droopingly (comparative more droopingly, superlative most droopingly)
- 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.