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Definition of repine in English: repineverb rɪˈpʌɪnrəˈpaɪn [no object]literary Feel or express discontent; fret. you mustn't let yourself repine Example sentencesExamples - The objective may seem to some an unworthy one but it takes account of the realities without repining uselessly over them.
- The Soviet government did not waste time repining over Daoud.
- Then he is envious, covetous, jealous and mistrustful, timorous, sordid, outwardly dissembling, sluggish, suspicious, stubborn, a condemner of women, a close liar, malicious, murmuring, never contented, ever repining.
- The narrator related that he had learned ‘never to repine at my own misfortunes, or to envy the happiness of another, since it is impossible for any man to form right judgement of his neighbor's sufferings.’
- A lonely widow repining for the past while enduring the boisterous attentions of her clumsy Irish housekeeper encounters a cripple collecting money for an invalid hospital.
Synonyms fret, be/feel unhappy, mope, languish, eat one's heart out, be/feel miserable, be/feel upset, be/feel despondent, brood lament, grieve, mourn, sorrow, pine, agonize
Origin Early 16th century: from re- 'again' + the verb pine2, on the pattern of repent. Definition of repine in US English: repineverbrəˈpīnrəˈpaɪn [no object]literary Feel or express discontent; fret. you mustn't let yourself repine Example sentencesExamples - Then he is envious, covetous, jealous and mistrustful, timorous, sordid, outwardly dissembling, sluggish, suspicious, stubborn, a condemner of women, a close liar, malicious, murmuring, never contented, ever repining.
- The objective may seem to some an unworthy one but it takes account of the realities without repining uselessly over them.
- The narrator related that he had learned ‘never to repine at my own misfortunes, or to envy the happiness of another, since it is impossible for any man to form right judgement of his neighbor's sufferings.’
- The Soviet government did not waste time repining over Daoud.
- A lonely widow repining for the past while enduring the boisterous attentions of her clumsy Irish housekeeper encounters a cripple collecting money for an invalid hospital.
Synonyms fret, be unhappy, feel unhappy, mope, languish, eat one's heart out, be miserable, feel miserable, be upset, feel upset, be despondent, feel despondent, brood
Origin Early 16th century: from re- ‘again’ + the verb pine, on the pattern of repent. |