Synonyms of yearning

yearning 1 of 3

adjective

as in crying

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crying
• pressing
• insistent
• urgent
• importunate
• exigent
• demanding
• clamorous
• ravenous
• unsatisfied
• avid
• unappeased
• voracious
• insatiable
• unquenchable
• rapacious
• insatiate
• inextinguishable
• unappeasable
• quenchless
• unslakable
• inappeasable

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• satiable
• satisfiable
• satiated
• satisfied
• extinguishable
• appeasable
• controlled
• restrained
• satiate
• curbed

yearning

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noun

as in longing

a strong wish for something

had a sudden yearning for something sweet

Synonyms & Similar Words

• longing
• craving
• desire
• urge
• thirst
• hunger
• passion
• appetite
• pining
• taste
• lust
• hankering
• drive
• itch
• yen
• wish
• compulsion
• appetency
• love
• thirstiness
• zeal
• need
• impulse
• jones
• liking
• letch
• eagerness
• will
• impulsion
• impatience
• requirement
• weakness
• necessity
• obsession
• want
• greed
• avarice
• acquisitiveness
• cupidity
• greediness
• rapacity
• avidity
• mania
• covetousness
• rapaciousness
• avariciousness
• cacoëthes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hatred
• distaste
• disgust
• repulsion
• revulsion
• repugnance
• nausea
• loathing
• aversion
• dislike
• allergy
• disinclination
• abhorrence
• indifference
• abomination
• disfavor
• disliking
• apathy
• averseness
• nonchalance
• unconcern
• insouciance

yearning

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verb

present participle of yearn

as in pining

Synonyms & Similar Words

• longing
• pining
• fearing
• worrying
• agonizing
• stressing
• chafing
• troubling
• stewing
• bothering
• sweating
• fretting
• despairing
• fussing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• accepting
• taking
• enduring
• abiding
• sustaining
• bearing
• sticking out
• tolerating
• stomaching