Word Meanings - PINING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing. 2. Wasting; consuming. "The pining malady of France." Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PINING)

• Languid
• Faint
• weary
• feeble
• unnerved
• unbraced
• pining
• drooping
• enervated
• exhausted
• flagging
• spiritless
• Sickly
• Weak
• diseased
• disordered
• ailing
• droop
• ing
• morbid
• unhealthy
• vitiated
• delicate
• tainted
• valetudinary

Related words: (words related to PINING)

• MORBIDEZZA
  Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
• PINNIPED
  One of the Pinnipedia; a seal. One of the Pinnipedes.
• PINCPINC
  An African wren warbler. .
• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• PINNATIFID
  Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.
• PINGUIDINOUS
  Containing fat; fatty.
• PINENCHYMA
  Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.
• PINEAPPLE
  A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• VITIATE
  1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
• AILMENT
  Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.
• PINNULA
  See PINNULE
• PINNULATED
  Having pinnules.
• PINGUID
  Fat; unctuous; greasy. "Some clays are more pinguid." Mortimer.
• PINUS
  A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced
• PINWORM
  A small nematoid worm , which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children and aged persons.
• PINDARICAL
  Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.
• SAILBOAT
  A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
• LAMBERT PINE
  The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• UNVAIL
  See UNVEIL
• PAILLON
  A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• HANGNAIL
  A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
• SUPINITY
  Supineness. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPPING
  1. The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper. 2. That which is supped; broth. Holland.
• PROPINQUITY
  1. Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity. 2. Nearness in time. Sir T. Browne. 3. Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. Shak.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• OPINER
  One who opines. Jer. Taylor.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• TENAILLON
  A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
• IMPINGUATE
  To fatten; to make fat. Bacon.