Thesaurus / repining
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synonyms for repining
- agony
- anguish
- bereavement
- despair
- discomfort
- gloom
- heartache
- heartbreak
- melancholy
- misery
- mourning
- pain
- regret
- remorse
- sadness
- sorrow
- trouble
- unhappiness
- woe
- worry
- affliction
- care
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despondency
- disquiet
- distress
- dole
- dolor
- grievance
- harassment
- infelicity
- lamentation
- malaise
- mortification
- mournfulness
- purgatory
- rue
- torture
- trial
- tribulation
- vexation
- wretchedness
- bemoaning
- bewailing
- deploring
- lamenting
- grief
- aching
- bereavement
- blackness
- crying
- darkness
- grieving
- keening
- lamentation
- lamenting
- languishing
- moaning
- pining
- sorrowing
- wailing
- weeping
- woe
antonyms for repining
MOST RELEVANT
- advantage
- blessing
- cheer
- comfort
- contentedness
- contentment
- gladness
- good health
- happiness
- health
- joy
- joyfulness
- peace
- pleasure
- relief
- satisfaction
- aid
- calm
- help
- hopefulness
- delight
- ecstasy
- exhilaration
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use repining in a sentence
But, fortunately, they had scant time for repining, and there is nothing like active occupation to banish useless brooding.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMONDHe has lost that spirit of repining and sarcasm, and lives as if he had an object.'
THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFECHARLOTTE M. YONGEHe endured without repining the bent back, the sightless eyes, and the creaking joints incident to over-maturity.
THE FIEND'S DELIGHTDOD GRILEAnd they learned to accept the inequalities of life without repining insolence.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VJOHN LORDI prepared myself for dismissal, and hoped that, when the hour arrived, I should submit without repining.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXVIII. FEBRUARY, 1843. VOL. LIII.VARIOUSIt was, however, no time for repining; still less for any yielding on my part to a feeling of despondency.
THE CRUISE OF THE "ESMERALDA"HARRY COLLINGWOODShe yearned to be with him, but she could wait without repining if he would persevere in his good resolutions.
GRIFB. L. (BENJAMIN LEOPOLD) FARJEONThe soul enduring enforced idleness and loss of power without repining.
POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOWVARIOUSYet it is downright shocking in me to use language which may at all subject me justly to the imputation of repining.
PRIVATE PAPERS OF WILLIAM WILBERFORCEWILLIAM WILBERFORCEWeak and gentle spirits have borne without repining, sufferings as great as threaten us.
THE ISLAND HOMERICHARD ARCHERWORDS RELATED TO REPINING
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- bemoaning
- bereavement
- bewailing
- care
- dejection
- deploring
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondency
- discomfort
- disquiet
- distress
- dole
- dolor
- gloom
- grievance
- harassment
- heartache
- heartbreak
- infelicity
- lamentation
- lamenting
- malaise
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- mournfulness
- mourning
- pain
- purgatory
- regret
- remorse
- repining
- rue
- sadness
- sorrow
- torture
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vexation
- woe
- worry
- wretchedness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.