languish

Other forms of languish

past tense

languished·

present participle

languishing·

third person

languishes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about languish

What does languish mean?

languish means "lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in languish?

languish has 2 syllables: lan-guish. The stress falls on "lan". In IPA it is /ˈlæŋɡwɪʃ/.

What is another word for languish?

Close synonyms include pine away, waste, ache, yearn, yen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is languish a common word?

languish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.