droopingly

English

Etymology

From drooping +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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.