dangling

The word “dangling” has 2 syllables: dan-gling

It's pronounced as /ˈdæŋɡəlɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for dangling?

In the thesaurus, “dangling” has 33 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for dangling along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for dangling

  • balancing
  • cascading
  • dependent
  • depending
  • draping
  • drooping
  • droopy
  • falling
  • festooning
  • flagging
  • garlanding
  • hanging
  • hooking
  • jutting
  • lolling
  • mounting
  • overhanging
  • pendant
  • pendent
  • pendulous
  • pinning
  • poising
  • projecting
  • protruding
  • sagging
  • slinging
  • sticking out
  • stringing
  • suspended
  • suspending
  • swinging
  • tacking
  • wilting

Meanings of dangling

  • verb
    1. To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
    2. The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
    3. To hang or trail something loosely.
    4. To trail or follow around.
    5. Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
    6. To position (a patient) in this way.
  • noun
    1. The act of hanging something so that it can move freely; suspension.
    2. The act of following or trailing around.
    3. All out, open throttle, with all you have.
  • adjective
    1. Suspended from above.

Example Sentences

  • The keys were dangling from the hook by the door, just out of reach.
  • A strand of ivy was dangling from the tree branch, swaying gently in the breeze.
  • The thread was dangling from the hem of her dress, unnoticed until now.
  • A pair of shoes was dangling from the power line, a mysterious urban sight.
  • The spider's web was adorned with insects, each one dangling helplessly in the sticky silk.

On this page you'll find 33 synonyms or another words to dangling, such as: balancing, cascading, dependent, depending, draping, drooping, droopy.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

sagging

  • abating
  • abject
  • ailing
  • all torn up
  • atrabilious
  • beat-up
  • bedraggled
  • bent
  • biconcave
  • billowing
  • black
  • bleak
  • blob
  • bottomward
  • bowed
  • bowing
  • breaking down
  • broody
  • bulging
  • bummed out
  • bump
  • bunch
  • bunching
  • burst
  • cascading
  • cast down
  • cheerless
  • clouded
  • collapsing
  • contracted
  • contracting
  • convexity
  • crestfallen
  • crummy
  • crumpling
  • cupped
  • dampened
  • dangling
  • dashed
  • de-escalating
  • decaying
  • declined
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • decrepit
  • degenerating
  • dented
  • depreciating
  • depressed
  • descendant
  • descendent
  • descending
  • despondent
  • deteriorating
  • dilation
  • diminishing
  • dimpled
  • dingy
  • dipped
  • dipping
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • distention
  • dog-eared
  • doleful
  • down
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • down-at-the-heel
  • downcast
  • downgrade
  • downhearted
  • downhill
  • downward
  • dragged
  • drained
  • drooping
  • droopy
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying down
  • earthward
  • ebbing
  • emaciating
  • empty
  • enervated
  • excavated
  • excess
  • excrescence
  • exhausted
  • faded
  • fading
  • fading away
  • failing
  • falling
  • fatigued
  • flabby
  • flaccid
  • flagging
  • flexuous
  • floppy
  • frowzy
  • gibbosity
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • going
  • gone to seed
  • gravitating
  • groundward
  • growth
  • grubby
  • hanging
  • heavy-hearted
  • hollow
  • hollowed
  • hump
  • hung
  • hurting
  • ill-fitting
  • in a bad way
  • in the pits
  • inclining
  • incurvate
  • incurvated
  • incurved
  • indented
  • inferior
  • intumescence
  • irresilient
  • jut
  • kaput
  • lagging
  • languid
  • languishing
  • languorous
  • lassitudinous
  • lax
  • leaden
  • lessening
  • lethargic
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • limp
  • listless
  • lolling
  • loose
  • losing momentum
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • lowering
  • lump
  • mangy
  • melancholy
  • messy
  • miserable
  • moderating
  • moody
  • mopey
  • mopish
  • morose
  • narrowing
  • neglected
  • nether
  • nodding
  • nodulation
  • nodule
  • old
  • out of condition
  • out of shape
  • outgrowth
  • outthrust
  • overgrown
  • oversize
  • pendant
  • pendent
  • pendulous
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • poor
  • poorly
  • pouch
  • precipitating
  • projection
  • prominence
  • promontory
  • protrusion
  • protuberance
  • punctured
  • quieting
  • ragged
  • ratty
  • receding
  • relaxed
  • relenting
  • roomy
  • rotting
  • round
  • rounded
  • running down
  • rusty
  • sac
  • sad
  • saggy
  • salience
  • scooped
  • scruffy
  • shabby
  • shapeless
  • shot down
  • shrinking
  • shriveling up
  • shrunken
  • sickly
  • sinking
  • slack
  • slackening
  • slacking
  • sleazy
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • sloppy
  • slouching
  • slouchy
  • slovenly
  • slowing
  • slumping
  • soft
  • softening
  • spiritless
  • squalid
  • stooped
  • stooping
  • subjacent
  • subsiding
  • sunken
  • superfluity
  • suspended
  • swagging
  • swelling
  • tacky
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • tattered
  • tender
  • threadbare
  • tired
  • tiring
  • to the bottom
  • toneless
  • torn
  • tuberosity
  • tumefaction
  • tumor
  • under
  • underneath
  • unfit
  • unkempt
  • unshapely
  • untidy
  • unwell
  • used-up
  • waning
  • wart
  • wasting
  • weak
  • weakening
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • wearing out
  • weeping
  • wilted
  • wilting
  • withering
  • woebegone
  • worn
  • wretched
  • yielding

wafting

  • afloat
  • air
  • awash
  • ballooning
  • blast
  • blow
  • bobbing
  • breath
  • breeze
  • buoyant
  • buoying
  • chinook
  • cyclone
  • dangling
  • draft
  • draught
  • drifting
  • floating
  • floaty
  • flurry
  • flutter
  • free
  • free-floating
  • gale
  • gliding
  • gust
  • hanging
  • hollow
  • hot air
  • hovering
  • inflated
  • light
  • loose
  • mistral
  • nonsubmersible
  • poised
  • poising
  • puff
  • rafting
  • riding
  • sailing
  • soaring
  • suspending
  • swimming
  • tempest
  • typhoon
  • unattached
  • unsinkable
  • unsubstantial
  • volatile
  • whiff
  • whirlwind
  • whisk
  • zephyr

hanging

  • assuming
  • balancing
  • ballooning
  • basin
  • basing
  • beetling
  • bobbing
  • bowed
  • bowing
  • buoying
  • cascading
  • collapsing
  • crumpling
  • dangling
  • declension
  • decline
  • declined
  • declining
  • declivity
  • dependent
  • depending
  • depression
  • descendant
  • descendent
  • descending
  • descent
  • dip
  • dipping
  • downgrade
  • downhill
  • draping
  • drifting
  • drooping
  • droopy
  • dropping
  • establishing
  • fall
  • falling
  • fastened to
  • festooning
  • flagging
  • floating
  • floppy
  • founding
  • garlanding
  • gliding
  • grounding
  • hang
  • hinging
  • hollow
  • hooking
  • hovering
  • hung
  • inclining
  • jutting
  • limp
  • lolling
  • mounting
  • nodding
  • overhanging
  • pendant
  • pendent
  • pendulant
  • pendulous
  • pinning
  • poising
  • postulating
  • predicating
  • premising
  • presuming
  • presupposing
  • projecting
  • protruding
  • rafting
  • resting
  • riding
  • sagging
  • sailing
  • sinking
  • slinging
  • slouching
  • slumping
  • staying
  • sticking out
  • stooping
  • stringing
  • subsiding
  • supposing
  • suspended
  • suspending
  • swagging
  • swaying
  • swimming
  • swinging
  • tacking
  • turning
  • wafting
  • weeping
  • wilting
  • yielding

sailing

garlanding


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