Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective Also pendant.
- hanging or suspended: a pendent lamp.
- overhanging; jutting; projecting: pendent cliffs.
- undecided; undetermined; pending: a lawsuit that is still pendent.
- impending.
noun
- pendant.
adjective
- dangling
- jutting
- (of a grammatical construction) incompletea pendent nominative is a construction having no verb
- a less common word for pending (def. 2), pending (def. 3)
noun
- a variant spelling of pendant
adj.c.1600 respelling of Middle English pendaunt “hanging, overhanging” (late 14c., from Old French pendant; see pendant) on model of its Latin original, pendentem.