Usually means: Declining in mental or emotional health.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word languishing:

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  1. languishing: Merriam-Webster
  2. languishing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. languishing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Languishing, languishing: Wordnik
  5. languishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. languishing: Wiktionary
  7. languishing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. languishing: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Languishing, languishing: Dictionary.com
  10. languishing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Languishing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. languishing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Languishing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. languishing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. languishing: FreeDictionary.org
  16. languishing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. languishing: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. languishing: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (languishing)

▸ adjective:  Lacking of vigor or spirit.
▸ noun:  The act of one who languishes.

Similar:
fade, pine away, waste, ache, yearn, long, yen, pine, slow, sickly, more...

Opposite:
thriving, flourishing

Types:
ailing, failing, flag, flagging, waning, weakening, more...

Phrases:
not exactly languishing in obscurity, languishing lazily, opposite of languishing, more...

Colors:
    muted lavender,     dusty rose,     faded blue,     washed-out green,     dull brown, more...

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Similar:
fade, pine away, waste, ache, yearn, long, yen, pine, slow, sickly, more...

Opposite:
thriving, flourishing

Types:
ailing, failing, flag, flagging, waning, weakening, more...

Phrases:
not exactly languishing in obscurity, languishing lazily, opposite of languishing, more...

Colors:
    muted lavender,     dusty rose,     faded blue,     washed-out green,     dull brown, more...



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