yearning
n.
desire, longing, craving; pining, missing someone or something
yearn
v.
desire, long, crave; pine, miss someone or something
yearning
Noun
1. prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
(synonym) longing
(hypernym) desire
(hyponym) hankering, yen
(derivation) ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish
Adjective
1. full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds"
(synonym) wistful
(similar) sad
yearn
Verb
1. desire strongly or persistently
(synonym) hanker, long
(hypernym) desire, want
(hyponym) ache, yen, pine, languish
(derivation) longer, thirster, yearner
2. have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
(synonym) ache, yen, pine, languish
(hypernym) hanker, long
(hyponym) die
(derivation) longer, thirster, yearner
3. have affection for; feel tenderness for
(hypernym) care for, cherish, hold dear, treasure
Yearning
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Yearn
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
yearning
n.
خواہش, چاہ, اشتياق, ترشنا, آرزو, تمنا
yearning
Synonyms and related words:
Amor, Christian love, Eros, Heimweh, Platonic love, aching, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, ardency, ardor, attachment, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, charity, conjugal love, desiderium, desire, devotion, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, hankering, heart, hero worship, homesick, homesickness, honing, idolatry, idolism, idolization, languishing, languishment, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, longing, love, lovemaking, mal du pays, maladie du pays, married love, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, passion, physical love, pining, popular regard, popularity, regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, truelove, uxoriousness, weakness, wishful, wistful, worship, yearnful, yen
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.