Synonyms of nodding

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adjective

ˈnä-diŋ 

as in bowing

bending downward or forward

some students, with nodding heads, were helplessly falling asleep during the boring lecture

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bowing
• bowed
• weeping
• falling
• hanging
• dangling
• descending
• declined
• hung
• declining
• sagging
• drooping
• inclining
• floppy
• stooping
• descendent
• descendant
• pendulous
• sinking
• droopy
• suspended
• limp
• dipping
• pendent
• pendant
• slumping

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• upright
• erect
• rigid
• stiff
• unbending
• inflexible
• elevated
• upraised
• raised

nodding

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verb

present participle of nod

as in bobbing

to make short up-and-down movements

though she couldn't see the rain, she knew it had started because she could see the flowers nod as raindrops hit them

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bobbing
• shaking
• pumping
• jerking
• swaying
• wagging
• jogging
• bobbling
• jouncing
• ducking
• seesawing
• wiggling
• rocking
• swinging
• wobbling
• jiggling
• oscillating
• undulating
• wabbling
• dropping

Examples of nodding in a Sentence

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Adjective

James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, likened our planet’s tilting phenomenon to a nodding head. —Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021