Synonyms of languishes

languishes

verb

present tense third-person singular of languish

as in fades

to lose bodily strength or vigor

older people, especially, were languishing during the prolonged heat wave

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fades
• weakens
• sags
• goes
• fails
• sinks
• droops
• lags
• decays
• deteriorates
• wilts
• withers
• wastes (away)
• flags
• rots
• emaciates
• wears out
• yields
• breaks down
• degenerates
• runs down

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• recovers
• recuperates
• rebounds
• rallies
• convalesces
• gains

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of languishes

As its stock languishes below its IPO price — at press time, $131 — short sellers are going all in against the company, hoping to make a killing off of CEO Elon Musk’s faltering pull on investors. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 16 July 2026

Mars languishes low in morning twilight for the fifth month in a row. — Joe Rao, Space.com, 2 May 2026

In the second, supply balloons while demand languishes, which could happen if, for example, the AI bubble pops. — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026

No such luck with Imperfect Women, which languishes in the same genre space but is perfectly obvious in comparison, a series that solves its mystery halfway through the season but still keeps going. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026

Manu has found a home, but in the human world her mother languishes in a detention facility and her father, the head of a criminal enterprise, is known among her friends as a rebel who has disappeared and is assumed dead. — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026

Those that finish from first to eighth in the league phase will automatically go through, and while Barca currently languishes in 15th, a win could take them up into the threshold depending on how other results pan out. — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026

Ditto for his team’s penalty kill, which languishes in the Eastern Conference basement. — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026

That blueprint has since become a template for developers eager to cultivate exclusivity while testing pricing in private and avoiding the public scrutiny of how many days a home languishes on the open market. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2025