Dictionary Definition
pining n : a feeling of deep longing
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
pining- present participle of pine
Translations
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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