Usually means: Hanging or suspended loosely, unattached.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. dangling: Merriam-Webster
  2. dangling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dangling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dangling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dangling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dangling, dangling: Wordnik
  7. dangling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dangling: Wiktionary
  9. Dangling, dangling: Dictionary.com
  10. dangling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Dangling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Dangling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. dangling: Rhymezone
  14. Dangling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. dangling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. dangling: FreeDictionary.org
  17. dangling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. dangling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dangling: Encyclopedia

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  1. dangling: Medical dictionary

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  1. dangling: Idioms

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  1. Dangling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dangling)

▸ adjective:  Suspended from above.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) In a state of suspense.
▸ noun:  The act of hanging something so that it can move freely; suspension.
▸ noun:  The act of following or trailing around.

Similar:
hanging, pendent, supported, pendant, suspension, suspended, underhung, suspensory, upstruck, underslung, more...

Opposite:
support, hold up, sustain

Types:
participle, gerund, infinitive, gerundive, infinitival, more...

Phrases:
dangling bonds, dangling modifiers, Dangling bond, dangling modifier, dangling participle, more...

Adjectives:
left, other, long, right, net, broken, little, false, joint, absurd, loose

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Similar:
hanging, pendent, supported, pendant, suspension, suspended, underhung, suspensory, upstruck, underslung, more...

Opposite:
support, hold up, sustain

Types:
participle, gerund, infinitive, gerundive, infinitival, more...

Phrases:
dangling bonds, dangling modifiers, Dangling bond, dangling modifier, dangling participle, dangling participles, kept dangling, dangling else, dangling pointer, dangling reference, keep dangling, more...

Adjectives:
left, other, long, right, net, broken, little, false, joint, absurd, loose

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     bronze,     copper,     pearl, more...



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