Languishes Synonyms and Antonyms

Have a desire for something or someone who is not present
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. desires
  2. withers
  3. pines
  4. yearns
  5. hungers
  6. aches
Antonyms:
  1. thrives
  2. improves
  3. strengthens
  4. flourishes
  5. grows

Words Related to Languishes

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Languishes Sentence Examples

  • Nieces Kelly and Blair struggle with their problems and dysfunctions while Kelly's mother Melinda languishes in a mental institution and Dorian's own daughter Cassie struggled with a psychotic break.

  • Season Three finds Susan keeping vigil at Mike's bedside as he languishes in a coma and Bree's new husband Orson concealing more secrets.

  • Representative art languishes, except a few childish terra-cottas; decorative art becomes once more purely geometrical, but shows only slight affinity with the contemporary geometrical art of the Aegean.

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