droop

1. 1.

   a shape that sags

   “there was a sag in the chair seat”

   Synonymssag

   Broaderdepression

Other forms of droop

plural

droops·

past tense

drooped·

present participle

drooping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about droop

What does droop mean?

droop means "droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in droop?

droop has 1 syllable: droop. In IPA it is /ˈdɹup/.

What is another word for droop?

Close synonyms include sag, swag, flag, loll, wilt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is droop a common word?

droop is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with droop?

1 word rhymes with droop. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.