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Showing words for YEARNING using the English dictionary
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Definitions for Yearning
[1] deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.
[2] an instance of such longing.
[3] to have an earnest or strong desire; long: to yearn for a quiet vacation.
[4] to feel tenderness; be moved or attracted: They yearned over their delicate child.
[5] an intense or overpowering longing, desire, or need; craving
[6] (usually foll by for or after or an infinitive ) to have an intense desire or longing (for); pine (for)
[7] to feel tenderness or affection
Words related to Yearning
longing, eagerness, hankering, hunger, fascination, aspiration, thirst, passion, ambition, appetite, craving, urge, love, fancy, infatuation, want, need, ache, liking, craze
Words nearby Yearning
yearling, yearlong, yearly, yearly meeting, yearn, yearning, yeasayer, yeast, yeast cake, yeast nucleic acid, yeasty
Origin of Yearning
before 900; Middle English yernen, Old English giernan derivative of georn eager; akin to Old Norse girna to desire, Greek chaírein to rejoice, Sanskrit háryati (he) desires
Other words from Yearning
yearn·ing·ly , adverb
un·yearn·ing , adjective
yearn·er , noun
un·yearned , adjective
Word origin for Yearning
Old English giernan; related to Old Saxon girnian, Old Norse girna, Gothic gairnjan, Old High German gerōn to long for, Sanskrit haryati he likes
Synonyms for Yearning
ambition, appetite, aspiration, craving, eagerness, fascination, hankering, hunger, longing, passion, thirst, ache, craze, fancy, infatuation, liking, love, need, urge, want