'Pining' definitions:
Definition of 'pining'
From: WordNet
noun
A feeling of deep longing
Definition of 'Pining'
From: GCIDE
- Pine \Pine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pined; p. pr. & vb. n. Pining.] [AS. p[imac]nan to torment, fr. p[imac]n torment. See 1st Pine, Pain, n. & v.]
- 1. To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- That people that pyned him to death. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To grieve or mourn for. [R.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pining'
From: GCIDE
- Pining \Pin"ing\, a.
- 1. Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Wasting; consuming. "The pining malady of France." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pining'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Pining'
- Pine,
- Pined,
- Piningly,
- Bay Pines,
- Big Pine,
- Castle Pines,
- Chilean pine,
- Circle Pines,
- Dammar pine,
- Georgia pine,
- Ground pine,
- Hillsboro Pines,
- La Pine,
- La Pine, OR,
- Lake of the Pines,
- Lambert pine,
- Loblolly pine,
- Lone Pine,
- Long Pine,
- Mountain Pine,
- Nut pine,
- Ocean Pines,
- Pembroke Pines,
- Pine Apple,
- Pine Beach,
- Pine Bluff,
- Pine Bluffs,
- Pine Bush,
- Pine Castle,
- Pine City,
- Pine County,
- Pine Crest,
- Pine Forest,
- Pine Glen,
- Pine Grove,
- Pine Grove, OR,
- Pine Haven,
- Pine Hill,
- Pine Hills,
- Pine Hollow,
- Pine Hollow, OR,
- Pine Island,
- Pine Knot,
- Pine Lake,
- Pine Lakes,
- Pine Lawn,
- Pine Level,
- Pine Manor,
- Pine Mountain,
- Pine Plains,
- Pine Point,
- Pine Prairie,
- Pine Ridge,
- Pine River,
- Pine Springs,
- Pine Valley,
- Pine Village,
- Pine Village, IN,
- Pine barren,
- Pine borer,
- Pine bullfinch,
- Pine finch,
- Pine grosbeak,
- Pine lizard,
- Pine marten,
- Pine moth,
- Pine mouse,
- Pine needle,
- Pine oil,
- Pine snake,
- Pine sugar,
- Pine thistle,
- Pine tree,
- Pine weevil,
- Pine wool,
- Pine, AZ,
- Pine, MN,
- Pitch pine,
- Pocono Pines,
- Pollock Pines,
- Prince's pine,
- Red pine,
- Riga pine,
- Rosemary pine,
- Royal Pines,
- Scotch pine,
- Screw pine,
- Slash pine,
- Southern Pines,
- Spruce Pine,
- Standing Pine,
- Stone pine,
- Sugar pine,
- Timber Pines,
- Town of Pines,
- Town of Pines, IN,
- Whispering Pines,
- White Pine,
- Yellow pine,
- amboina pine,
- amboyna pine,
- ancient pine,
- arolla pine,
- australian pine,
- bishop pine,
- bishop's pine,
- black pine,
- bristlecone pine,
- brown pine,
- bull pine,
- celery pine,
- chile pine,
- cypress pine,
- douglas pine,
- dundathu pine,
- frankincense pine,
- hickory pine,
- hoop pine,
- huon pine,
- imou pine,
- jack pine,
- jeffrey pine,
- jeffrey's pine,
- jersey pine,
- kauri pine,
- knobcone pine,
- knotty pine,
- limber pine,
- lodgepole pine,
- longleaf pine,
- mahogany pine,
- monterey pine,
- mugho pine,
- mugo pine,
- oregon pine,
- pine away,
- pine barrens,
- pine cone,
- pine family,
- pine fern,
- pine hyacinth,
- pine lily,
- pine nut,
- pine sawyer,
- pine siskin,
- pine spittlebug,
- pine tar,
- pine vole,
- pinon pine,
- pond pine,
- ponderosa pine,
- prickly pine,
- princess pine,
- running pine,
- sabine pine,
- scots pine,
- scrub pine,
- shore pine,
- shortleaf pine,
- silver pine,
- soledad pine,
- stringybark pine,
- swamp pine,
- swiss pine,
- torrey pine,
- torrey's pine,
- true pine,
- umbrella pine,
- virginia pine,
- westland pine,
- weymouth pine,
- whitebark pine,
- whitebarked pine,
- wollemi pine,
- Bay Pines, FL,
- Big Pine Key,
- Big Pine, CA,
- Castle Pines, CO,
- Circle Pines, MN,
- Colonial Pine Hills,
- Hillsboro Pines, FL,
- Lake of the Pines, CA,
- Lone Pine, CA,
- Long Pine, NE,
- Mountain Pine, AR,
- Norfolk Island pine,
- Ocean Pines, MD,
- Pembroke Pines, FL,
- Pine Apple, AL,
- Pine Beach, NJ,
- Pine Bluff, AR,
- Pine Bluffs, WY,
- Pine Bush, NY,
- Pine Castle, FL,
- Pine City, MN,
- Pine County, MN,
- Pine Crest, TN,
- Pine Forest, TX,
- Pine Glen, PA,
- Pine Grove Mills,
- Pine Grove, PA,
- Pine Grove, WV,
- Pine Haven, WY,
- Pine Hill, AL,
- Pine Hill, NJ,
- Pine Hill, NY,
- Pine Hills, CA,
- Pine Hills, FL,
- Pine Island Center,
- Pine Island Ridge,
- Pine Island, FL,
- Pine Island, MN,
- Pine Island, TX,
- Pine Knoll Shores,
- Pine Knot, KY,
- Pine Lake, GA,
- Pine Lakes, FL,
- Pine Lawn, MO,
- Pine Level, NC,
- Pine Manor, FL,
- Pine Mountain Club,
- Pine Mountain, GA,
- Pine Plains, NY,
- Pine Point, MN,
- Pine Prairie, LA,
- Pine Ridge at Crestwood,
- Pine Ridge, AL,
- Pine Ridge, FL,
- Pine Ridge, NE,
- Pine Ridge, SC,
- Pine Ridge, SD,
- Pine River, MN,
- Pine Springs, MN,
- Pine Valley, CA,
- Pine Valley, NJ,
- Pine-clad,
- Pine-crowned,
- Pocono Pines, PA,
- Pollock Pines, CA,
- Royal Pines, NC,
- Southern Pines, NC,
- Spruce Pine, NC,
- Standing Pine, MS,
- Timber Pines, FL,
- Whispering Pines, NC,
- White Pine County,
- White Pine, NV,
- White Pine, TN,
- alpine celery pine,
- american white pine,
- black cypress pine,
- canadian red pine,
- celery top pine,
- common sickle pine,
- cypress-pine,
- dwarf mountain pine,
- eastern white pine,
- european nut pine,
- japanese black pine,
- japanese red pine,
- japanese table pine,
- japanese umbrella pine,
- king william pine,
- mexican nut pine,
- moreton bay pine,
- new caledonian pine,
- northern pitch pine,
- pine leaf aphid,
- pine tree shilling,
- pine tree state,
- pine-weed,
- port jackson pine,
- red cypress pine,
- shortleaf yellow pine,
- sierra lodgepole pine,
- southern yellow pine,
- southwestern white pine,
- swiss mountain pine,
- swiss stone pine,
- tasman dwarf pine,
- textile screw pine,
- western prince's pine,
- western white pine,
- western yellow pine,
- white cypress pine,
- Big Pine Key, FL,
- Colonial Pine Hills, SD,
- Idyllwild-Pine Cove,
- Pine Grove Mills, PA,
- Pine Island Center, FL,
- Pine Island Ridge, FL,
- Pine Knoll Shores, NC,
- Pine Mountain Club, CA,
- Pine Ridge at Crestwood, NJ,
- Pine-needle wool,
- Pine-tree State,
- Pine-tree money,
- White Pine County, NV,
- celery-topped pine,
- grey-leaf pine,
- new zealand mountain pine,
- new zealand white pine,
- pine-barren sandwort,
- pine-tar rag,
- pine-wood wool,
- rocky mountain bristlecone pine,
- screw-pine family,
- short-leaf pine,
- single-leaf pine,
- table-mountain pine,
- white pine blister rust,
- white-pine rust,
- Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA,
- yellow-leaf sickle pine,
- Leisure Village West-Pine Lake Park,
- Leisure Village West-Pine Lake Park, NJ