pining
Longing from afar
Pining is yearning or longing, especially with sadness or unfulfilled desire.
Someone pines for a lost love, a distant home, or something they can't have: She spent years pining for him after he left.
The word suggests a wasting away from grief or longing—to pine is to languish, to ache quietly over time.
Intense prolonged craving
- achingExperiencing dull pain
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- lonesomeSad from isolation
- homesickLonging for one's dwelling
wistful · nostalgic · languishing · missing · sighing · hungering · thirsting · dreaming
Pining from romantic longing
- infatuatedConsumed by shallow ardor
- smittenPowerfully attracted to someone
- heartsickProfoundly sad, grieving
- torchbearingHolding a lit brand
one-sided · unreciprocated · adoring · enamored · moonstruck · forlorn · limerence · crushing
Sadly longing for something
- forlornSad and abandoned
- dejectedLow in spirits
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
- downcastSad or despondent
blue · crestfallen · gloomy · moping · morose · sullen · dolorous · heartsore
Using poorly, inefficiently
- witheringDrying and declining
- decliningDecreasing in strength
- weakeningBecoming less strong
- droopingHanging or bending downward
wilting · languishing · dwindling · flagging · deteriorating · fading · sickening · ailing
Deprived through loss
- grievingFeeling sorrow after loss
- heartbrokenOverwhelmed with grief
- mournfulShowing or feeling grief
- sorrowfulFilled with grief
bereaved · anguished · mourning · lamenting · inconsolable · brokenhearted · heavy-hearted · tearful
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
homesick · wistful · nostalgic · languishing · missing · sighing · hungering · thirsting · dreaming · wishful
lovesick
Pining from romantic longing
- infatuatedConsumed by shallow ardor
- smittenPowerfully attracted to someone
- heartsickProfoundly sad, grieving
torchbearing · one-sided · unreciprocated · adoring · enamored · moonstruck · forlorn · limerence · crushing · besotted
wistful
Sadly longing for something
- forlornSad and abandoned
- dejectedLow in spirits
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
downcast · blue · crestfallen · gloomy · moping · morose · sullen · dolorous · heartsore · woebegone
wasting
Using poorly, inefficiently
drooping · wilting · languishing · dwindling · flagging · deteriorating · fading · sickening · ailing · failing
bereft
Deprived through loss
- grievingFeeling sorrow after loss
- heartbrokenOverwhelmed with grief
- mournfulShowing or feeling grief
sorrowful · bereaved · anguished · mourning · lamenting · inconsolable · brokenhearted · heavy-hearted · tearful · weeping
- unhealthy attachmentclinginess, codependency, enmeshment, clingy, neediness
- griefgrief, mourning, bereavement, sorrow, grieving
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
- courtshipcourting, courtship, suitor, betrothal, wooing
- desireswant, wish, desire, wanting, yearning
- lamentslamentation, wailing, keen, keening, lament
piningcontentment
Peaceful satisfaction with circumstances
satisfaction · fulfillment · satiation · gratification · contentedness
piningindifference
Lack of interest
apathy · unconcern · disinterest · nonchalance · insouciance
- pining awayWasting from prolonged longing
- mutual piningBoth desire each other unknowingly