pendent /ˈpɛndənt/ adjective6 •Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyss, […] — 1667 •Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one. — 1780 •Pending (in various senses). •Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb. •Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable. •(no longer used) Projecting over something; overhanging. formspendents · more pendent · most pendent