Meaning of PINING
| Pronunciation: | | p'Ining
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| | Definition: | | [n] a feeling of deep longing |
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| | See Also: | | longing, lovesickness, yearning | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pin"ing\, a.
1. Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.
2. Wasting; consuming. ``The pining malady of France.''
--Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Heimweh, 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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