pining

Speech parts

1. pining - Noun

2. pining - Adjective

3. pining - Verb

Meaning

of Pine

Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.

Wasting; consuming.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

jones pine will need want desire wish passion impulse eager hunger hungry inclination urge lust
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Antonyms

malice loathing detestation opposition hate hostility
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Hypernyms

longing yearning hungriness

Hyponyms

lovesickness

Phrases with the word

pining for the past pining for past pining for

Anagrams

ginnip

Examples

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining. Andrew Lang

Ageing is an extraordinary process... If you are pining for youth I think it produces a stereotypical old man because you only live in memory, you live in a place that doesn't exist ... I think ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been. David Bowie

You're pining." "Look who's talking. 'Oh, I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why--' Cassandra Clare

A sensible man takes pleasure in what he has instead of pining for what he has not. Democritus

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition. Thomas Haden Church

The laughter of someone pining for his beloved is like that of someone who is always crying. Indonesian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Pinilla pinin Pininfarina pining for pining for past pining for the past