yearning
/ˈjɜːnɪŋ
/noun
A feeling of intense longing for something: he felt a yearning for the mountains...
- My yearnings for the taste of meat are becoming almost animalistic in their fervour.
- Maimonides compares this to the intense yearnings that a man feels for a woman.
- The feminine side in all of us sometimes represents fulfilment of spiritual yearnings.
Synonyms
longing, pining, craving, desire, want, wish, hankering, urge, need, hunger, hungering, thirst, appetite, greed, lust, ache, burning, fancy, inclination, eagerness, fervour
informal yen, itch
rare cacoethes
adjective
Involving or expressing yearning: a yearning hope...
- What is the suppressed focus, the yearning urge in our species to be so neccessarily linked?
- Is there no unhappy David to whom I can sing the yearning psalms of love?
- The accompanying soundtrack has the yearning vocal of one José González.
Derivatives
yearningly
/ adverb ...- Her gaze wandered to Christopher almost yearningly, whose attention was preoccupied by Matt.
- I am glad to have MITECS on my shelf I glance at its covers yearningly and think to myself: If only I understood all of those 741 entries.
- Now history reveals that looking yearningly to America for inspiration in moments of crisis has in fact been a recurrent impulse within Britain's leading groups.
Rhymes
- Whitehead, Alfred North
- white-headed
- white-headed boy
- white-headed duck
- white-headed eagle
- white-headed fishing eagle
- white-headed sea eagle
- Whiteheadian
- white-heart
- white-heart cherry
- white-hearted
- white heat
- white hellebore
- white helleborine
- white hen
- white heron
- White Highlander
- White Highlands
- white hole
- white honey
- white honeysuckle
- white hope
- Whitehorse
- white-horsed
- white horses