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Pining

Pining Meaning & Definition
Pining Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pining?

[n] a feeling of deep longing

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pining:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pining: 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

See Also | longing | lovesickness | yearning

Pining In Webster's Dictionary

\Pin"ing\, a. 1. Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing. 2. Wasting; consuming. ``The pining malady of France.'' --Shak.

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