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pining
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pining has 1 sense
- pining(n = noun.feeling) - a feeling of deep longing; is a kind of hungriness, longing, yearning
has particulars: lovesickness
Derived form verb pine1
CIDE DICTIONARY
pining, a.
- Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing. [1913 Webster]
- Wasting; consuming. Shak. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
pining
Heimweh, aching, agony, anguish, bowed-down, care, carking care, cast down, coming apart, cracking, crumbling, dashed, decadent, declining, degenerate, dejected, depressed, desiderium, despairing, despondent, desponding, deteriorating, discouraged, disheartened, disintegrating, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, draining, drooping, droopy, dwindling, ebbing, effete, fading, failing, falling, feeling low, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces, grief, hankering, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, heartless, homesick, homesickness, honing, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, lamentation, languishing, languishment, longing, low, low-spirited, mal du pays, maladie du pays, marcescent, misery, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, pessimistic, prostration, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, sorrow, sorrowing, spiritless, subdued, subsiding, suicidal, tabetic, waning, wasting, weary of life, wilting, wishful, wistful, withering, woe, woebegone, world-weary, worsening, yearnful, yearning, yen
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