Synonyms for Yearning:

• adj.

  •amatory (adjective)
  • fonder,
  • rapturous,
  • doting.
  •anxious (adjective)
  • in tent,
  • most itching,
  • in-tent,
  • more itching.
  •athirst (adjective)
  • raring.
  •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.
  •desirous (adjective)
  • grasping,
  • fond,
  • ardent,
  • Lusting,
  • greedy,
  • hopeful,
  • expectant,
  • needful,
  • amorous,
  • wishful,
  • urgent,
  • itching,
  • acquisitive,
  • passionate.
  •eager (adjective)
  • 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.
  •enterprising (adjective)
  • 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.
  •envious (adjective)
  • fain,
  • discontented,
  • grudging,
  • dissatisfied,
  • resentful,
  • begrudging,
  • green-eyed,
  • green with envy,
  • longing for.
  •homesick (adjective)
  • longing for home,
  • heartsick.
  •hopeful (adjective)
  • faithful,
  • aspiring,
  • optimistic,
  • sure.
  •hungry (adjective)
  • esurient,
  • edacious,
  • unsatisfied,
  • insatiate,
  • hoggish,
  • could eat a horse,
  • got the munchies,
  • unfilled,
  • flying light,
  • Famishing,
  • Hungered,
  • on empty stomach.
  •insatiable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •lovesick (adjective)
  • most lovelorn,
  • more lovelorn,
  • lovelorn.
  •nostalgic (adjective)
  • cornball,
  • more syrupy,
  • down memory lane,
  • most syrupy,
  • syrupy,
  • more cornball,
  • like yesterday,
  • most cornball.
  •thirsty (adjective)
  • more cottonmouthed,
  • de hydrated,
  • droughtier,
  • more juiceless,
  • most waterless,
  • more sapless,
  • more waterless,
  • bonedry,
  • de-hydrated,
  • more dehydrated,
  • most sapless,
  • droughtiest,
  • most dehydrated,
  • most juiceless,
  • partial to,
  • most cottonmouthed.
  •wishful (adjective)
  • longful,
  • more daydreaming,
  • more longful,
  • most longful,
  • most daydreaming.

• n.

  •
  • ache.
  •
  • appetite.
  •ambition (noun)
  • 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.
  •appetite (noun)
  • gluttony,
  • big eyes,
  • Gluttonies,
  • Propensities.
  •aspiration (noun)
  • fire the belly.
  •compassion (noun)
  • tenderheartednesses,
  • softheartednesses,
  • humanenesses.
  •craving (noun)
  • munchy,
  • hurtings.
  •cupidity (noun)
  • graspingness,
  • possessiveness,
  • greediness.
  •desire (noun)
  • fondness,
  • covetousness,
  • expectation,
  • hope,
  • Ardency,
  • infatuation,
  • liking,
  • amorousness,
  • craze,
  • greed,
  • want,
  • fascination,
  • need,
  • passion,
  • acquisitiveness,
  • longing.
  •eagerness (noun)
  • intentnesses,
  • impetuosities.
  •fancy (noun)
  • envisionings,
  • pie sky,
  • pie the sky,
  • pie in sky,
  • envisagements,
  • romancings,
  • eyes fors.
  •hankering (noun)
  • pinings,
  • drutherses.
  •hope (noun)
  • confidence,
  • optimism,
  • presumption,
  • faith,
  • anticipation,
  • sureness,
  • contemplation.
  •hunger (noun)
  • a stomach fors,
  • hungrinesses,
  • esuriences,
  • famishments.
  •longing (noun)
  • hungerings,
  • covetings.
  •love (noun)
  • mad for,
  • devotedness.
  •nostalgia (noun)
  • 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.
  •thirst (noun)
  • thirstinesses.
  •will (noun)
  • 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.
  •wish (noun)
  • in vocation,
  • in vocations,
  • re quests,
  • re-quests,
  • in-vocations.

• v.

  •desiring (verb)
  • pining,
  • Needing,
  • welcoming,
  • Fancying.
  •envying (verb)
  • Coveting,
  • Resenting,
  • Envying.
  •hoping (verb)
  • Anticipating,
  • Presuming,
  • wishing,
  • assuming,
  • wanting,
  • Relying,
  • Intending,
  • Awaiting,
  • Hoping,
  • Contemplating,
  • trusting,
  • Expecting,
  • dreaming of,
  • believing,
  • Desiring.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • urgency,
  • impatience,
  • love,
  • inclination,
  • appetence,
  • mourning,
  • demand,
  • temptation,
  • addiction,
  • appetency.
  •
  • thought.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Yearning:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    longing, yearn.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    desire.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    suction, dream, blower, inclination.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Intending, Desiring, wishing, seeking.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    aspiration, nostalgia, eagerness, thirst, craving, ambition, quest, wish, willingness, lust, appetite, midshipman, expectation.

Antonyms for Yearning:

• n.

  • desire
    satisfaction, distaste, hatred, hate, comfort, indifference, dislike, plenty, apathy, disinterest.
  • Other antonyms:
    heedless, unmindful, apathetic, cool, regardless, calm, unconcern, indifferent, loathing, unconcerned, unmoved, careless, dispassionate, uninterested, stony, purposeless, stolid, negligent, phlegmatic, cold, frigid.