languishing

English

Adjective

languishing

1. Lacking of vigor or spirit.

Verb

languishing

1. present participle and gerund of languish

Noun

languishing (plural languishings)

1. The act of one who languishes.
   • 1680, Thomas Otway, The Orphan:

     Happy, Monimia, he to whom these sighs, / These tears, and all these languishings, are paid!