1. hanging or suspended: dangling, hanging, or suspended
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formal or literary
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2. overhanging: jutting, overhanging, or sticking out
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formal or literary
)
3. pending: not yet dealt with, decided, or settled
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formal or literary
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4. grammar grammatically incomplete: describes an incomplete grammatical structure
noun (pluralpen·dents)
Definition:
jewellery architecture arts nautical Same as pendantn (sense 1) (sense 2) (sense 3) (sense 4) (sense 5) (sense 6)
[13th century. Variant of pendant]
pen·den·cy noun
pen·dent·ly adverb
Word History
The Latin word pendere "to hang," from which pendent is derived, is also the source of English append, appendix, compendium, depend, impend, penchant, pendulum, penthouse, perpendicular, and suspend.
