nodding (root: nod)

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: nod=ding

CIDE DICTIONARY

nodding, a. 

 Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

nodding

absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, anesthetized, asleep, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bemused, castle-building, casual, cataleptic, comatose, daydreaming, daydreamy, distant, doped, dozy, dreaming, dreamy, drooping, droopy, drowsing, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, faraway, floppy, goofing off, half asleep, half-awake, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, in a reverie, in a stupor, in the clouds, incautious, incomplete, languid, lethargic, limp, loose, lop, lop-eared, loppy, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, oblivious, off-guard, oscitant, out of it, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy, sedated, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleeping, sleepy, slight, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somewhere else, somnolent, soporific, stargazing, stretchy, stuporose, stuporous, superficial, swag, taken up, transported, unalert, uncautious, unconscious, unguarded, unprepared, unready, unvigilant, unwary, unwatchful, woolgathering, wrapped in thought, yawning, yawny

ROGET THESAURUS

nodding

Inactivity

N inactivity, inaction, inertness, obstinacy, lull, quiescence, rust, rustiness, idleness, remissness, sloth, indolence, indiligence, dawdling, ergophobia, otiosity, dullness, languor, segnity, segnitude, lentor, sluggishness, procrastination, torpor, torpidity, torpescence, stupor, somnolence, drowsiness, nodding, oscitation, oscitancy, pandiculation, hypnotism, lethargy, statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids, sleep, slumber, sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep, Morpheus, Somnus, coma, trance, ecstasis, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore, hypnology, dull work, pottering, relaxation, Castle of Indolence, lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic, sleeping pill, relaxant, anaesthetic, general anaesthetic, torpedo, idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus, do- little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner, afternoon farmer, truant, bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone, lubber, lubbard, slow coach (slow, ), opium eater, lotus eater, slug, lag, sluggard, slugabed, slumberer, dormouse, marmot, waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus, inactive, motionless, unoccupied, unbusied, indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish, exanimate, soulless, listless, drony, dronish, lazy as Ludlam's dog, dilatory, laggard, lagging, slow, rusty, flagging, lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle, pottering, shilly-shally, sleeping asleep, fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep, in a sound sleep, sound as a top, dormant, comatose, in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus, sleepy, sleepful, dozy, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent, lethargic, lethargical, somnifacient, statuvolent, statuvolic, heavy, heavy with sleep, napping, somnific, somniferous, soporous, soporific, soporiferous, hypnotic, balmy, dreamy, unawakened, unawakened, sedative, inactively, at leisure, the eyes begin to draw straws, bankrupt of life yet prodigal of ease, better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay, idly busy rolls their world away, the mystery of folded sleep, the timely dew of sleep, thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep, tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep.