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- pronunciation:
- laeng
gwihsh
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb)
| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
languishes, languishing, languished |
| definition 1: |
to lose strength or energy; weaken.
With such good care, he should have been gaining strength, but instead he was languishing.- synonyms:
- flag
- antonyms:
- flourish, thrive
- similar words:
- decay, decline, droop, ebb, fade, fail, pine, sag, weaken, wilt
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| definition 2: |
to suffer in a state of neglect or indifference.
Without new food supplies or reinforcements, the encamped army languished.The old woman languished in the nursing home with rarely a visit from one of her children.- synonyms:
- rot
- antonyms:
- flourish, thrive
- similar words:
- decay, ebb, waste, wither
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| definition 3: |
to yearn or long for someone, esp. in a melancholy way.
For years he languished, unable to think of any other woman.- synonyms:
- pine
- similar words:
- crave, long, thirst, yearn
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| related words: |
ail, pant, suffer, tire, wane |
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| derivation: |
languisher (n.) |
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