What is another word for yearning?
670 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ jˈɜːnɪŋ], [ jˈɜːnɪŋ], [ j_ˈɜː_n_ɪ_ŋ]
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Similar words for yearning:
- amatory (adjective)
- anxious (adjective)
- athirst (adjective)
- covetous (adjective)
- desirous (adjective)
- eager (adjective)
- enterprising (adjective)
- envious (adjective)
- homesick (adjective)
- hopeful (adjective)
- hungry (adjective)
- insatiable (adjective)
- lovesick (adjective)
- nostalgic (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- thirsty (adjective)
- wishful (adjective)
- ambition (noun)
- appetite (noun)
- aspiration (noun)
- compassion (noun)
- craving (noun)
- cupidity (noun)
- desire (noun)
- eagerness (noun)
- fancy (noun)
- hankering (noun)
- hope (noun)
- hunger (noun)
- longing (noun)
- love (noun)
- nostalgia (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- thirst (noun)
- will (noun)
- wish (noun)
- desiring (verb)
- envying (verb)
- hoping (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Yearning:
adj.
• amatory (adjective) • anxious (adjective) • athirst (adjective) • covetous (adjective)- more hogging,
- more grudging,
- greeneyed,
- green eyed,
- more swinish,
- most ensurient,
- more ensurient,
- most hogging,
- close fisted,
- more prehensile,
- most swinish,
- most grudging,
- grabby,
- most prehensile.
- grasping,
- fond,
- ardent,
- Lusting,
- greedy,
- hopeful,
- expectant,
- needful,
- amorous,
- wishful,
- urgent,
- itching,
- acquisitive,
- passionate.
- more selfstarting,
- more hankering,
- most pining,
- rarin' go,
- hot trot,
- more warmblooded,
- most fervid,
- rarin go,
- ready willing,
- most self-starting,
- more self starting,
- self starting,
- more pining,
- most hankering,
- more eager,
- selfstarting,
- most selfstarting,
- more appetent,
- most appetent,
- rarin to go,
- more self-starting,
- self-starting,
- most self starting,
- most warmblooded,
- vehement,
- ready and willing.
- more gogo,
- more advancing,
- more takeover,
- more take over,
- more take-over,
- up and coming,
- more lusting,
- most advancing,
- more gumptious,
- most go-go,
- most take-over,
- coming strong,
- take-over,
- most takeover,
- GOGO,
- go go,
- most gogo,
- hard ball,
- most gumptious,
- most go go,
- most lusting,
- up-and-coming,
- more go-go,
- more diligent,
- goahead,
- more go go,
- most take over.
- fain,
- discontented,
- grudging,
- dissatisfied,
- resentful,
- begrudging,
- green-eyed,
- green with envy,
- longing for.
- esurient,
- edacious,
- unsatisfied,
- insatiate,
- hoggish,
- could eat a horse,
- got the munchies,
- unfilled,
- flying light,
- Famishing,
- Hungered,
- on empty stomach.
- more unsatisfiable,
- in-satiable,
- most unsatisfiable,
- importunate,
- more quenchless,
- un-appeasable,
- in satiable,
- un satisfiable,
- in-temperate,
- most unquenchable,
- un-quenchable,
- in temperate,
- more unquenchable,
- un-satisfiable,
- most quenchless,
- un appeasable,
- un quenchable.
- cornball,
- more syrupy,
- down memory lane,
- most syrupy,
- syrupy,
- more cornball,
- like yesterday,
- most cornball.
- athirst,
- lovesick,
- Droughty,
- cottonmouthed,
- bone dry,
- covetous,
- quenchless,
- insatiable,
- hungry,
- gumptious,
- itching for,
- take over,
- nostalgic,
- amatory,
- unquenchable,
- wistful,
- warmblooded,
- coming on strong,
- sapless,
- desirous,
- enterprising,
- hot to trot,
- envious,
- Thirsting,
- juiceless,
- dry as dust,
- unsatisfiable,
- rarin' to go,
- waterless,
- swinish,
- go-go,
- crazy for,
- dying for,
- eager,
- anxious,
- dying to,
- ensurient,
- prehensile,
- wild for.
n.
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- ache.
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- appetite.
- get goes,
- pre-tension,
- get up go,
- pre tension,
- get go,
- pre-tensions,
- pre tensions,
- get and go,
- fire belly,
- get and goes,
- get up goes.
- fondness,
- covetousness,
- expectation,
- hope,
- Ardency,
- infatuation,
- liking,
- amorousness,
- craze,
- greed,
- want,
- fascination,
- need,
- passion,
- acquisitiveness,
- longing.
- hearts and flowerses,
- fond memory,
- tear jerker,
- re morses,
- hearts flowerses,
- re-morses,
- re morse,
- tear-jerkers,
- hearts flowers,
- re-morse,
- tearjerkers,
- wistfulnesses,
- tear jerkers.
- humanities,
- fond memories,
- figment,
- urge,
- velleity,
- heart's desire,
- intentness,
- willfulness,
- tenderheartedness,
- Hungering,
- hearts desire,
- craving,
- Illusions,
- will,
- hearts and flowers,
- aphrodisias,
- cupidity,
- erotism,
- druthers,
- partiality,
- aspiration,
- nostalgia,
- yen,
- a stomach for,
- wistfulness,
- aphrodisia,
- softheartedness,
- compassion,
- empathy,
- zeal,
- wish,
- eagerness,
- hankering,
- esurience,
- itch,
- spirit,
- fire in belly,
- Envisagement,
- tearjerker,
- fancy,
- munchies,
- ambition,
- Thirstiness,
- vacancy,
- initiative,
- desire,
- humaneness,
- enterprises,
- enterprise,
- eyes for,
- fire in the belly,
- lenity,
- hungriness,
- tear-jerker,
- famishment,
- famine,
- self-discipline,
- hunger,
- impetuosity,
- selfcontrol,
- get up and go,
- Romancing,
- pursuits,
- thirst.
- self disciplines,
- re-solve,
- dis-position,
- self control,
- re solve,
- de-signs,
- de-sign,
- re solves,
- de cree,
- dis-positions,
- dis position,
- selfdiscipline,
- de-termination,
- de-crees,
- heart desire,
- de terminations,
- re-solutions,
- selfdisciplines,
- self restraint,
- re-solution,
- hearts desires,
- heart's desires,
- re solutions,
- de sign,
- velleities,
- heart desires,
- self discipline,
- self-disciplines,
- de signs,
- dis positions,
- willfulnesses,
- de-cree,
- de crees,
- selfrestraint,
- de-terminations,
- re-solves,
- de termination.
v.
• desiring (verb) • envying (verb) • hoping (verb)Other synonyms:
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- urgency,
- impatience,
- love,
- inclination,
- appetence,
- mourning,
- demand,
- temptation,
- addiction,
- appetency.
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- thought.
- hungrily,
- clemency,
- glowing,
- popularity,
- hanker,
- ardently,
- drive,
- enchantment,
- agog,
- aching,
- Languishing,
- fervid,
- heart,
- ambitious,
- spirited,
- cherishing,
- gasp,
- necessity,
- worship,
- Languishment,
- admiration,
- requisite,
- would like,
- wishfully,
- fad,
- hot pants,
- cacoethes,
- thirstily,
- amour,
- enviously,
- obsessed,
- choose,
- tender feeling,
- sentiment,
- long-suffering,
- covet,
- repine,
- melancholy,
- affection,
- compulsion,
- HOTS,
- preoccupation,
- intent,
- thirst for,
- weakness,
- libido,
- zealous,
- Earning,
- intense,
- ravenousness,
- plan,
- yearn for,
- yearn,
- attachment,
- infatuated,
- attraction,
- avariciousness,
- discontentedness,
- hot,
- ardor,
- concupiscence,
- avidity,
- scheme,
- pant,
- goal,
- salaciousness,
- avidly,
- Moping,
- adoration,
- prurience,
- think of,
- wistfully,
- rage,
- anxiously,
- mercy,
- impetus,
- voracity,
- bodily love,
- regard,
- ardour,
- carefully,
- Sighing,
- agape,
- objective,
- taste,
- humanity,
- panting,
- animated,
- interest,
- lechery,
- burning,
- Empressement,
- hanker for,
- plot,
- edacity,
- earnest,
- discontentment,
- thirsty,
- truelove,
- intention,
- forbearance,
- gallantry,
- preference,
- avaricious,
- Vitalized,
- languish,
- CARITAS,
- ravenously,
- starving,
- long,
- keen,
- gyneolatry,
- pensive,
- enthusiastic,
- morose,
- drooping,
- private placement,
- requirement,
- Inspirited,
- woeful,
- lustfulness,
- voracious,
- solicitous,
- Idolism,
- idolatry,
- commiseration,
- penchant,
- rapture,
- complain,
- free-lovism,
- like,
- mournful,
- fellow-feeling,
- motive,
- restlessly,
- greedily,
- seek,
- tenderness,
- pressure,
- impatient,
- idolization,
- inkling,
- sorrowful,
- lovemaking,
- sad,
- apprehensively,
- eros,
- nostomania,
- fail,
- craves,
- mania,
- rapaciously,
- impetuous,
- be solicitous of,
- tolerance,
- Yearnful,
- desperate,
- yearningly,
- charity,
- envy,
- lust after,
- fervently,
- obsession,
- stomach,
- ruth,
- forlorn,
- Energized,
- relish,
- excited,
- impulse,
- avarice,
- implore,
- overanxiety,
- leniency,
- hero worship,
- beg,
- fervour,
- dying,
- disconsolate,
- energetic,
- zealously,
- pity,
- disposition,
- missing,
- shine,
- sex,
- eagerly,
- Honing,
- keenly,
- ravenous,
- devotion,
- amor,
- pruriency,
- longingly,
- starve,
- stimulated,
- anxiety,
- fervent,
- Letch,
- woebegone,
- voraciousness,
- itchy,
- whim,
- lecherousness,
- readily,
- uneasily,
- earnestly,
- avid,
- jones,
- aim,
- brotherly love,
- breathless impatience,
- pine,
- bowels,
- uxoriousness,
- aspire,
- long for,
- be after,
- voraciously,
- groan,
- prerequisite,
- crave,
- solicitude,
- predilection,
- sympathy,
- flame,
- lasciviousness,
- keenness,
- avariciously,
- languorous,
- fervor,
- jealously,
- dream,
- predisposition,
- purpose,
- enthusiasm,
- fading.
How to use "Yearning" in context?
What does yearning feel like? It might be hard to put into words, but to many people, it's an intense feeling of wanting something or someone. For some, yearning feels like a burning fire in their hearts, while for others it might be more subtle. Regardless of how it manifests, yearning is a powerful force that can drive people to do amazing things. Whether it's longing for a loved one, a desired object, or even just a contentment that doesn't feel quite right, yearning is an important part of life.
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desire.
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blower, dream, inclination, suction.
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