languishing

languishing
Synonyms and related words:
Heimweh, aching, adoring, affectionate, bowed-down, cachectic, cachexia, cachexy, cast down, chronic ill health, coming apart, conjugal, contractive, cracking, crumbling, dashed, debilitated, debilitation, debility, decadent, declining, decreasing, decrepitude, decrescendo, decrescent, degenerate, dejected, delicacy, delicate health, deliquescent, demonstrative, depressed, desiderium, despairing, despondent, desponding, deteriorating, devoted, diminishing, diminuendo, discouraged, disheartened, disintegrating, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, drained, draining, drawn-out, drooping, droopy, dwindling, ebbing, effete, enervated, enervation, enfeebled, exhausted, exhaustion, extended, fading, failing, faineant, faithful, falling, feeble, feebleness, feeling low, filial, flagging, fond, fragility, fragmenting, frail, frailty, going to pieces, hankering, healthless, healthlessness, heartless, homesick, homesickness, honing, husbandly, hypochondria, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, hypochondriasis, ill health, in low spirits, in poor health, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, indolent, infirm, infirmity, interminable, invalid, invalidism, invalidity, lackadaisical, languishment, languorous, lasting, lengthened, lessening, limp, lingering, listless, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-pending, long-winded, longing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, low, low-spirited, mal du pays, maladie du pays, marathon, marcescent, maternal, melting, morbidity, morbidness, moribund, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, on the wane, overlong, pale, parental, paternal, peaked, peakedness, peaky, pessimistic, pining, poor health, prolonged, protracted, reduced, reduced in health, reductive, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, romantic, run-down, sentimental, shriveling, sickliness, sickly, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, soft, spiritless, spun-out, stretched-out, subdued, subsiding, suicidal, tabetic, tender, unhealthiness, unhealthy, unsound, unsoundness, unwholesomeness, uxorious, valetudinarian, valetudinarianism, valetudinary, waning, wasting, weakened, weakliness, weakly, weary of life, wifely, wilting, wishful, wistful, with low resistance, withering, woebegone, world-weary, worsening, yearnful, yearning, yen

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  • Languishing — Lan guish*ing, a. 1. Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength. [1913 Webster] 2. Amorously pensive; indicating melancholy; as, languishing eyes, or look. [1913 Webster] 3. Suffering neglect; neglected. [PJC] 4. Continuing in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • languishing — index disconsolate, powerless Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • languishing — *languid, languorous, lackadaisical, listless, spiritless, enervated Analogous words: weakened, enfeebled, debilitated (see WEAKEN): indolent, faineant (see LAZY): inert, *inactive, supine: *sentimental, romantic: pining, longing, yearning (see… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • languishing — [laŋ′gwish iŋ] adj. that languishes; specif., a) becoming weak; drooping b) lingering c) slow; not intense d) pining; longing e) tender; sentimental languishingly adv …   English World dictionary

  • languishing — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from present participle of languishen to languish 1. a. : losing health and strength could not rouse him from his languishing state b. : lingering …   Useful english dictionary

  • languishing — languishingly, adv. /lang gwi shing/, adj. 1. becoming languid, in any way. 2. expressive of languor; indicating tender, sentimental melancholy: a languishing sigh. 3. lingering: a languishing death. [1300 50; ME; see LANGUISH, ING2] * * * …   Universalium

  • languishing — /ˈlæŋgwɪʃɪŋ/ (say langgwishing) adjective 1. becoming languid, in any way. 2. lingering: a languishing death. 3. expressive of languor; indicating tender, sentimental melancholy: a languishing sigh. –languishingly, adverb …  

  • Languishing — Languish Lan guish, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Languished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Languishing}.] [OE. languishen, languissen, F. languir, L. languere; cf. Gr. ? to slacken, ? slack, Icel. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and perh. to E. slack …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • languishing — lan·guish·ing || læŋgwɪʃɪŋ adj. languid; weak, drooping; pining, yearning; melancholic lan·guish || læŋgwɪʃ n. act of languishing; melancholy gaze, yearning look v. weaken, droop, wither; suffer neglect, suffer hardship; pine away,… …   English contemporary dictionary

  • languishing — adjective lacking of vigor or spirit …   Wiktionary

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