Used in a Sentence

languished

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for languished.

Editorial note

Tablets more or less languished as little more than what they started out as: glorified content consumption devices.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of languished gathered in one view.

verb

(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.

verb

(intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.

verb

(intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for languished.

verb

(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.

verb

(intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.

verb

(intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.

verb

(intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.

Example sentences

1

Tablets more or less languished as little more than what they started out as: glorified content consumption devices.

2

A zippy one-liner that a year ago would have languished midway down the thread now becomes the top comment.

3

For many years they styled themselves as a mobile apps company, while their database business languished.

4

Without that, they would have languished economically, just as the Greek are doing now.

5

I love the idea of BugsEverywhere but the project has languished since I started using it (August of 2013).

6

Two years ago, Verizon and AT&T had LTE while Sprint and T-Mobile languished.

7

The project languished for awhile, which I think led to it falling by the wayside popularity-wise.

8

This is the reason pgp and it's equivalent have languished in obscurity.

9

I have a MS from a top math program, and I languished for 2.5 years unemployed.

10

I sometimes wonder if they weren't onto an aspect of GUI development that seems to have languished in recent years.

11

The movie version seems to have languished into even greater obscurity.

12

It may be there now, I've not looked recently, but I know it has languished.

Quote examples

1

I don't have it all -- in fact, I have that "side project" (open source hacker reputation) that's languished for a long time and I've always felt bad about it.

2

(Am I remembering correctly that del.icio.us "static" pages would actually show as top Google hits?) Sadly del.icio.us has languished over the years under various owners.

3

While I agree with your "perception" problem all that has to happen is one article in the WSJ written about an iOS dev who languished in obscurity in the App Store only to find riches in the Windows store.

4

"No one runs full speed for their whole life" is a great observation: many of the most prominent creators in the world only produced their best work during a fairly short span of time, and then languished shortly after.

Proper noun examples

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Languished for months without any public review comments from Docker maintainers.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use languished in a sentence?

Tablets more or less languished as little more than what they started out as: glorified content consumption devices.

What does languished mean?

(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.

What part of speech is languished?

languished is commonly used as verb.