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- Dictionarydangling/ˈdaŋɡlɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. hanging or swinging loosely: "a pair of dangling earrings"
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to hang loosely, or to hold something so that it hangs loosely: Loose electric wires were dangling from the wall. He dangled the puppet in front of the children. [ T ] to offer someone something that they want in order to persuade that person to do something:
: to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (such as climbing in "Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view") a dangling participle. a dangling modifier. transitive verb. 1. : to cause to dangle : swing. dangled her feet in the water. 2. a. : to keep hanging uncertainly. b.
DANGLE definition: 1. to hang loosely, or to hold something so that it hangs loosely: 2. to offer someone something…. Learn more.
Describing something as dangling means it's hanging down loosely, like the dangling silver charms on your grandmother's bracelet. Dangling things are suspended or swinging freely, from your dangling legs that hang over the side of the dock with your toes just touching the water, to your cocker spaniel's silky, dangling ears.
to offer someone something that they want in order to persuade that person to do something: I've tried dangling all kinds of offers in front of him to get him to work harder at school, but nothing works. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Hanging and suspending. be dripping with something idiom. dangle from something. dangly. drape. drip.
3 meanings: 1. to hang or cause to hang freely 2. to display as an enticement 3. the act of dangling or something that dangles.... Click for more definitions.
Or, you might even dangle a possibility — "If you were to dangle the prospect of dessert to a child, then you better follow through!" Definitions of dangle. verb. hang freely. “the ornaments dangled from the tree”. synonyms: drop, swing. see more see less. types: droop, loll.
