LANGUISHING

Definitions: LANGUISHING

LANGUISHING

Adjective

1. Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.

2. Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Languish

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "LANGUISHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Weakness	Languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly; (disease); dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: LANGUISHING

English words defined with "LANGUISHING": fade ♦ Languente, languish, Languishingly, Languishment, lovesick, Love-sick. (references)

Specialty definitions using "LANGUISHING": Embalm. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Christ's Counsel to His Languishing Church (reference) Languishing for justice : being a critical survey of the criminal justice system (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	1963	One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1931)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	For her part, Cosette was languishing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		After languishing for several years, the market for non-SIAS servers has gotten a fresh lease on life. Internet emerges as the prime driver for servers; however, the finance user group (including banks, NBFCs, and stock exchanges) is investing heavily in non-SIAS servers, especially on midrange and high-end servers. (references)
Economic History	Brazil	Currently, over 2.5 million complaints are languishing in the labor court system, where they may remain unresolved for four or five years. (references)
	Sri Lanka	Inflation was an annualized 11.5 percent in May, compared to 6.2 percent in 2000. Trading on the Colombo stock market reflects these deteriorating fundamentals, with the exchange benchmark languishing at 1991 levels. (references)
Human Rights	Venezuela	In addition, the slow, secretive, and inquisitorial procedures under the previous code resulted in an inefficient, overburdened, and corrupt judicial system that left cases languishing an average of 4 to 5 years in the courts, during which time the accused usually remained in jail. (references)
Worker Rights	Brazil	It is estimated that over 2.5 million complaints were languishing in the labor court system at the end of 2000. Although most complaints are resolved in the first hearing, the appeals process introduces many delays, and some cases remain unresolved for 5 to 10 years. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutoeus maximus.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"LANGUISHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "LANGUISHING" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	96.67%	58	44,427
Adjective (general or positive)	3.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	60	N/A

Language		Translations for "LANGUISHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lëngues, molitës, i lëshuar (abandoned, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, funky, lackadaisical, languid, lax, licentious, limp, loose, nerveless, pendulous, profligate, slack, slatternly, slipshod, weary, wretched), i kapitur (prostrate), i djegur (baked, burnt, scalded, scorched). (various references)

Arabic		‏مضنى (enervated, exhausted, gaunt, haggard, wasted, worn out). (various references)

Bulgarian		разнежен (sentimental), намаляващ (flagging, remissive, step down, thin, waney), замечтан (dreamy, faraway, languorous, moony, pensive), пълен с копнеж. (various references)

Chinese		衰弱 (Ailing, Feeble, languish, Languished). (various references)

Czech		umdlévající. (various references)

Finnish		kaihoisa (longing, wistful). (various references)

French		languissant (languid), langoureux (languid, languorous). (various references)

German		schmachtend (soulful, yearning), ermattend (fainting, jading). (various references)

Greek		μαραμένοσ (sear, sere, wizen, wizened), αδύνατοσ (feeble, flimsy, frail, impossible, impotent, languorous, puny, sappy, sinewless, sleazy, slender, slimsy, softy, strengthless, thin, underdog, underfed, wan, washy, weak). (various references)

Hungarian		bágyadás. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		脱力感 (ennui, feeling of exhaustion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		� つりょくか�" (ennui, feeling of exhaustion). (various references)

Manx		shymley (consume, decline, droop, failing, languish, pine, pining). (various references)

Pig Latin		anguishinglay

Portuguese		langoroso (languid, laniard), lânguido (drowsy, flaccid, half and half, languid, listlessness, wanton), ter muita saudade de. (various references)

Romanian		slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), din ce în ce mai mic, care se stinge (languorous, parting). (various references)

Russian		слабый (characterless, cold, cranky, delicate, dicky, dim, effeminate, enervate, faint, faint sound, faintish, feeble, fragile, frail, knock kneed, lax, limp, loosely-coupled, mild, nerveless, pale, pimping, reckling, remiss, slack, slight, soft, tender, unbacked, weak, weakly, wishy washy), печальный (comfortless, deplorable, disappointing, disconsolate, dolorous, heavyhearted, heavy-hearted, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, miserable, mournful, pensive, sad, sorrowful, sorry, tearful, tristful, wailful). (various references)

Scottish		siaranachadh, eothanachadh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		malaksao (exhausted, languid, languorous), koji vene, koji posustaje, koji čami. (various references)

Swedish		tynande, trånsjuka (pining), trånande (love-lorn, wistful, yearning), trånad (pining), smäktande (languorous, lovesick). (various references)

Turkish		yavaş (gingerly, largo, leisurely, lingering, not fast, poco, slow, slowly, slowspeed, tardy), mahzun (chapfallen, downcast, droopy, sad), hali kalmamış, gevşemiş (loose, relaxed, unfastened, unstuck), baygın (comatose, faint, fainted, heavy, insensible, languid, languorous, senseless, unconscious). (various references)

Ukranian		слабкий (bedrid, characterless, crank, delicate, faint, feeble, flagging, lax, limp, nerveless, one horse, pale, queasy, slack, tender, tenuous, weak, weakly), томний, млосний (effeminate, languorous). (various references)

Vietnamese		uể oải (bloodless, cup, dull, languid, slack, slothful), tiều tuỵ úa t� n, suy giảm, phai nhạt lờ đờ, ốm mòn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "LANGUISHING": languishingly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "LANGUISHING" (pronounced la"nggwishing)
8	-a" ng g w i sh i ng	anguishing.
7	-ng g w i sh i ng	distinguishing, extinguishing.
5	-w i sh i ng	relinquishing.
4	-i sh i ng	accomplishing, admonishing, astonishing, banishing, brandishing, demolishing, diminishing, embellishing, establishing, finishing, flourishing, lavishing, nourishing, photofinishing, polishing, publishing, punishing, reestablishing, refinishing, refurbishing, relishing, replenishing, skirmishing, vanishing.
3	-sh i ng	abolishing, ambushing, bashing, blushing, brainwashing, brushing, cashing, clashing, crashing, crushing, dashing, dishing, fishing, flashing, flushing, furbishing, furnishing, gnashing, gushing, hashing, lashing, meshing, onrushing, overfishing, pushing, quashing, ravishing, refreshing, rehashing, rushing, slashing, sloshing, smashing, splashing, squashing, stashing, tarnishing, thrashing, trashing, unleashing, washing, wishing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-g-h-i-i-l-n-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: anguishing.
	-2 letters: anilingus, laughings, shingling, signaling, unlashing.
	-3 letters: aligning, anglings, gnashing, hangings, inguinal, inhaling, languish, laughing, nilghais, nilghaus, shauling, singling, slanging, slinging, snailing.
	-4 letters: alining, angling, anguish, anilins, gaining, gashing, gingals, guanins, guiling, guising, gushing, hailing, hanging, hauling, hinging, inhauls, insulin, inulins, lashing, lignins, linings, linsang, lungans, lunging, lushing, nailing, nighing, nilgais, nilgaus, nilghai, nilghau, sailing, saining, shining, sighing, signing, singing, sughing, unaging, unhangs, unnails, unsling.
	-5 letters: agings, aguish, ailing, algins, aligns, anilin, annuli, annuls, ashing, gingal, gluing, guanin, gulags, haggis, haling, hangul, inhaul, inulin, isling, laighs, lasing, laughs, liangs, ligans, lignin, lingas, lingua, lining, linins, luging, lungan, lungis, nihils, nilgai, nilgau, saning, signal, sluing, sunnah, uhlans, unhang, unlash, unnail.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-g-h-i-i-l-n-n-s-u"
	+2 letters: languishingly.
	+3 letters: hemagglutinins.
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