repining

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noun

The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.

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Meanings

nounrepining (plural repinings)

plural repinings

  1. The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.

    Doomed to a brief existence, she wasted not the hours in painful repinings at a fate so stern; but still regarding it as inevitable, she prepared as calmly as possible to encounter it.

    1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 140
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of repine

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
regretfulsorry

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

ripening
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “repining,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repining.

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