YEARN Synonyms

• desire strongly or persistently

• primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

• primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified

• good at remembering

• holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices

• (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration

• for an extended time or at a distant time

• for an extended distance

• of relatively great height

• involving substantial risk

• planning prudently for the future

• having or being more than normal or necessary

• desire strongly or persistently

• a coniferous tree

• straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus

• have a desire for something or someone who is not present

• have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal

• wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person)

• have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

• plead or ask for earnestly

• the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state

• an inclination to want things

• something that is desired

• feel or have a desire for; want strongly

• expect and wish

• express a desire for

• a specific instance of feeling hopeful

• United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

• the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

• grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

• someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

• one of the three Christian virtues

• expect and wish

• be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

• intend with some possibility of fulfilment

• a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation

• strong desire for something (not food or drink)

• feel the need to eat

• have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

• be hungry; go without food

• an utterance made by exhaling audibly

• a sound like a person sighing

• heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily

• utter with a sigh

• a physiological need to drink

• strong desire for something (not food or drink)

• feel the need to drink

• have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

• a state of extreme poverty

• the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

• anything that is necessary but lacking

• a specific feeling of desire

• feel or have a desire for; want strongly

• have need of

• hunt or look for; want for a particular reason

• wish or demand the presence of

• be without, lack; be deficient in

• a specific feeling of desire

• an expression of some desire or inclination

• (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare

• the particular preference that you have

• to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something

• make or express a wish

• feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of

• order politely; express a wish for

• invoke upon

• prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

• have a desire for something or someone who is not present

• become feeble

• a yearning for something or to do something

• the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen

• have a desire for something or someone who is not present