Transcription
-
- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
-
- [sag]
- /sæg/
- /ˈsægɪŋ/
-
- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
-
- [sag]
- /sæg/
Definitions of sagging word
- verb without object sagging to sink or bend downward by weight or pressure, especially in the middle: The roof sags. 1
- verb without object sagging to hang down unevenly; droop: Her skirt was sagging. 1
- verb without object sagging to droop; hang loosely: His shoulders sagged. 1
- verb without object sagging to yield through weakness, lack of effort, or the like: Our spirits began to sag. 1
- verb without object sagging to decline, as in price: The stock market sagged today. 1
- verb without object sagging Nautical. (of a hull) to droop at the center or have excessive sheer because of structural weakness. Compare hog (def 14). to be driven to leeward; to make too much leeway. 1
Information block about the term
Origin of sagging
First appearance:
before 1375 One of the 22% oldest English words
1375-1425; late Middle English saggen (v.), probably < Scandinavian; compare Norwegian sagga to move slowly (akin to Low German sacken to sink, Norwegian, Danish sakke, Swedish sacka, Icelandic sakka to slow up, fall behind)
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Sagging
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
sagging popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 87% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
sagging usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for sagging
adj sagging
- atrabilious — irritable
- baggy — If a piece of clothing is baggy, it hangs loosely on your body.
- biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
- broody — You say that someone is broody when they are thinking a lot about something in an unhappy way.
- cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
noun sagging
- bulge — If something such as a person's stomach bulges, it sticks out.
- convexity — the state or quality of being convex
- gibbosity — the state of being gibbous.
- intumescence — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- bagginess — The characteristic of being baggy.
adjective sagging
- drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- flaccid — soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps.
- groundward — Towards the ground.
- hanging — the way in which a thing hangs.
- incurvated — Simple past tense and past participle of incurvate.
Top questions with sagging
- how to fix sagging door?
- how to stop sagging breasts?
- how to fix a sagging couch?
- how to keep your boobs from sagging?
- how to keep breasts from sagging?
- how to prevent boobs from sagging?
- what does sagging mean?
- how to keep boobs from sagging?
- where did sagging come from?
- how to fix sagging couch?
- how to tighten sagging breast?
- how to fix a sagging roof?
- how to prevent sagging breasts?
- where did sagging pants come from?
- how to fix sagging breasts?
See also
Matching words
- Words starting with s
- Words starting with sa
- Words starting with sag
- Words starting with sagg
- Words starting with saggi
- Words starting with saggin
- Words starting with sagging