Pined

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To feel an intense and often painful desire for something or someone that is absent
2. Experienced a strong yearning or sorrow due to missing someone or something important
3. Felt a deep, melancholic desire for a person or object that was no longer present

Etymology: "Pined" is simply the past tense and past participle of "pine" in its sense of longing for someone, and the verb's surprising story runs through torment rather than trees. Old English "pīnian" meant "to torment," built from the noun "pīnā," meaning pain, torment or torture. That noun is cognate with the English word "pain," and it traces back to the Latin "poena," meaning punishment, which in turn comes from Greek "poinē," a word for penalty or even blood-money. The root entered the Germanic languages with Christianity, when the idea of suffering in punishment and martyrdom came with the new religion's vocabulary. Over the centuries the sense of physical torment faded into emotional suffering, and wasting away under grief became a kind of torment in itself. To pine came to mean languishing, growing thin and weak through sorrow or longing, and from there to ache for someone who is absent.

Synonyms: longed, yearned, craved, desired, missed

Antonyms: forgot, ignored, disregarded, abandoned, dismissed