THESAURUS
languishing
Heimweh, aching, adoring, affectionate, bowed-down, cachectic, cachexia, cachexy, cast down, chronic ill health, coming apart, conjugal, contractive, cracking, crumbling, dashed, debilitated, debilitation, debility, decadent, declining, decreasing, decrepitude, decrescendo, decrescent, degenerate, dejected, delicacy, delicate health, deliquescent, demonstrative, depressed, desiderium, despairing, despondent, desponding, deteriorating, devoted, diminishing, diminuendo, discouraged, disheartened, disintegrating, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, drained, draining, drawn-out, drooping, droopy, dwindling, ebbing, effete, enervated, enervation, enfeebled, exhausted, exhaustion, extended, fading, failing, faineant, faithful, falling, feeble, feebleness, feeling low, filial, flagging, fond, fragility, fragmenting, frail, frailty, going to pieces, hankering, healthless, healthlessness, heartless, homesick, homesickness, honing, husbandly, hypochondria, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, hypochondriasis, ill health, in low spirits, in poor health, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, indolent, infirm, infirmity, interminable, invalid, invalidism, invalidity, lackadaisical, languishment, languorous, lasting, lengthened, lessening, limp, lingering, listless, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-pending, long-winded, longing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, low, low-spirited, mal du pays, maladie du pays, marathon, marcescent, maternal, melting, morbidity, morbidness, moribund, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, on the wane, overlong, pale, parental, paternal, peaked, peakedness, peaky, pessimistic, pining, poor health, prolonged, protracted, reduced, reduced in health, reductive, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, romantic, run-down, sentimental, shriveling, sickliness, sickly, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, soft, spiritless, spun-out, stretched-out, subdued, subsiding, suicidal, tabetic, tender, unhealthiness, unhealthy, unsound, unsoundness, unwholesomeness, uxorious, valetudinarian, valetudinarianism, valetudinary, waning, wasting, weakened, weakliness, weakly, weary of life, wifely, wilting, wishful, wistful, with low resistance, withering, woebegone, world-weary, worsening, yearnful, yearning, yen
ROGET THESAURUS
languishing
Weakness
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weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy,
languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.
