What is another word for sagging?

Pronunciation: [sˈaɡɪŋ] (IPA)

The term sagging is often used to describe something that is drooping or hanging down in an unsupported way. However, there are many synonyms for sagging that can convey the same idea in a slightly different way. For example, words like drooping, slumping, and wilting all suggest a lack of support or structure, while terms like sinking and collapsing imply a more dramatic loss of strength. Other words like loosening and slackening suggest a gradual deterioration, while words like sagging and bulging are more specific to certain types of materials or shapes. Ultimately, there are many ways to describe sagging, each with their own nuances and connotations, depending on the context and the intended meaning.

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What are the opposite words for sagging?

The word "sagging" refers to things that are drooping, hanging down, or losing their shape. In contrast, the antonyms of sagging refer to things that are upright, firm, or tight. For instance, the word "taut" is an antonym of "sagging" as it signifies something that is stretched or pulled tightly. The word "firm" indicates an unyielding and solid material or surface that remains unbroken or unchanging. Similarly, the word "perky" is an antonym of "sagging," which signifies something that is lively, energetic, and cheerful. Other antonyms for sagging include "upright," "toned," "straightened," "buoyant," and "uplifted.

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Usage examples for Sagging

The young fellow opened a sagging door, let her pass into a narrow hallway, and from there into a stuffy, hopelessly conventional fifth-rate parlor, handed her the bag, and departed with another tilt of the hat which placed it at a different angle.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Suthep and Jatupon became aware that their masculine images of themselves were dependent on being a builder of the house, and so they quickly secured two sagging corners so that they would not be badgered for feminine subservience.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
He gave the required names and addresses, and slouched away, his animosity gone, and only a dull, miserable lethargy sagging upon his worn body.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

Famous quotes with Sagging

  • When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
    Allen Klein
  • Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
    Walter Lord
  • A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.
    Gene Tunney
  • The beginning of massive construction & Infrastructure development is the best solution to revive the sagging industries across the sector and bring out the nation from the clutches of economic recession.
    Anuj Somany
  • Making models was reputed to be hugely enjoyable... But when you got the kit home and opened the box the contents turned out to be of a uniform leaden gray or olive green, consisting of perhaps sixty thousand tiny parts, some no larger than a proton, all attached in some organic, inseparable way to plastic stalks like swizzle sticks. The tubes of glue by contrast were the size of large pastry tubes. No matter how gently you depressed them they would blurp out a pint or so of a clear viscous goo whose one instinct was to attach itself to some foreign object—a human finger, the living-room drapes, the fur of a passing animal—and become an infinitely long string. Any attempt to break the string resulted in the creation of more strings. Within moments you would be attached to hundreds of sagging strands, all connected to something that had nothing to do with model airplanes or World War II. The only thing the glue wouldn’t stick to, interestingly, was a piece of plastic model; then it just became a slippery lubricant that allowed any two pieces of model to glide endlessly over each other, never drying. The upshot was that after about forty minutes of intensive but troubled endeavor you and your immediate surroundings were covered in a glistening spiderweb of glue at the heart of which was a gray fuselage with one wing on upside down and a pilot accidentally but irremediably attached by his flying cap to the cockpit ceiling. Happily by this point you were so high on the glue that you didn’t give a shit about the pilot, the model, or anything else.
    Bill Bryson

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