languishing
adjective
[ ˈlaŋɡwɪʃɪŋ ]
• failing to make progress or be successful.
• "the country's languishing stock market"
languish
verb
• (of a person, animal, or plant) lose or lack vitality; grow weak.
• "plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant"
Similar:
weaken,
grow weak,
deteriorate,
decline,
go into a decline,
wither,
droop,
flag,
wilt,
fade,
fail,
waste away,
go downhill,
• be forced to remain in an unpleasant place or situation.
• "he has been languishing in jail since 1974"
Similar:
waste away,
rot,
decay,
wither away,
moulder,
be abandoned,
be neglected,
be forgotten,
suffer,
be disregarded,
experience hardship,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘become faint, feeble, or ill’): from Old French languiss-, lengthened stem of languir ‘languish’, from a variant of Latin languere, related to laxus ‘loose, lax’.
