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DROOPY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does droopy mean?
• DROOPY (adjective)
The adjective DROOPY has 1 sense:
1. hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)
Familiarity information: DROOPY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Comparative: droopier
Superlative: droopiest
Superlative: droopiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)
Synonyms:
Similar:
lax (lacking in firmness or tension; not taut)
Derivation:
droop (a shape that sags)
Context examples
These can include: • A droopy eyelid • Double vision or other changes in vision • Pain above or behind the eye • A dilated pupil • Numbness or weakness on one side of the face or body
(Brain Aneurysm, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
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