1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pine.

2. (a.) Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.

3. (a.) Wasting; consuming.

Heimweh 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 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