1. pining - Noun
2. pining - Adjective
3. pining - Verb
of Pine
Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.
Wasting; consuming.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAmong 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