pendular

pendular (comparative more pendular, superlative most pendular)

1. Characteristic of the motion of a pendulum.
   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 113:

     Arabic meter—so Arabic tradition claims—sprang from the rhythm of bodily motions, such as the pendular beating of the blacksmith and the trot of the horse and the camel.

   • 1998, Kamila Shamsie, In the City by the Sea, Bloomsbury (2004), page 103:

     The ice rose off the counter, attached to the salted string. Hasan’s eyes opened wide. Aba flicked a finger against the ice. String and ice started swaying back and forth. ‘For Salman, time is pendular,’ Aba repeated, pointing to the ice.

2. pendulous.

• pure land, underlap, uplander

pendular m or f (plural pendulares)

1. pendular, oscillating

• “pendular”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pendular”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From pendul +‎ -ar.

pendular m or n (feminine singular pendulară, masculine plural pendulari, feminine/neuter plural pendulare)

1. pendular

From péndulo +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /penduˈlaɾ/ [pẽn̪.d̪uˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pen‧du‧lar

pendular m or f (masculine and feminine plural pendulares)

1. fickle
2. commuter (that commutes)

• “pendular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025