Word Meanings - REPINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To fail; to wane. "Reppening courage yields no foot to foe." Spenser. 2. To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur. But Lachesis thereat gan to repine. Spenser. What

Additional info about word: REPINE

1. To fail; to wane. "Reppening courage yields no foot to foe." Spenser. 2. To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur. But Lachesis thereat gan to repine. Spenser. What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPINE)

• Repent
• Grieve
• regret
• sorrow
• rue
• repine
• deplore
• lament

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REPINE)

• Welcome
• hail
• approve
• abandon
• abjure
• forget
• disregard

Related words: (words related to REPINE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• LAMENTING
  Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• REPINER
  One who repines.
• REPENTANT
  1. Penitent; sorry for sin. Chaucer. Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood. Millton. 2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains." Pope.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• DEPLOREDNESS
  The state of being deplored or deplorable. Bp. Hail.
• REGRETFUL
  Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining. -- Re*gret"ful*ly, adv.
• FORGETFUL
  1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. 2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.
• LAMENTED
  Mourned for; bewailed. This humble praise,lamented shade ! receive. Pope.
• REPENTANTLY
  In a repentant manner.
• FORGETFULNESS
  1. The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind. 2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope. 3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention;
• LAMENT
  To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20.
• APPROVEMENT
  a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now
• APPROVE
  approve, fr. L. approbare; ad + probare to esteem as good, approve, 1. To show to be real or true; to prove. Wouldst thou approve thy constancy Approve First thy obedience. Milton. 2. To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
• ABJUREMENT
  Renunciation.
• LAMENTINGLY
  In a lamenting manner.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• ENGRIEVE
  To grieve. Spenser.