YEARNING as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
   Synonym(s)
   • longing (what does longing mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) yearning is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • desire (what does desire mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • hankering (what does hankering mean?)
   • yen (what does yen mean?)
   • pining (what does pining mean?)
   • wishfulness (what does wishfulness mean?)
   • wistfulness (what does wistfulness mean?)
   • nostalgia (what does nostalgia mean?)
   • discontentment (what does discontentment mean?)
   • discontent (what does discontent mean?)
   • discontentedness (what does discontentedness mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • ache (what does ache mean?)
   • yearn (what does yearn mean?)
   • yen (what does yen mean?)
   • pine (what does pine mean?)
   • languish (what does languish mean?)
   • hanker (what does hanker mean?)
   • long (what does long mean?)
   • yearn (what does yearn mean?)
   • hanker (what does hanker mean?)
   • long (what does long mean?)
   • yearn (what does yearn mean?)

YEARNING as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • full of longing or unfulfilled desire
   Synonym(s)
   • wistful (what does wistful mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds
   Similar To
   • sad (what does sad mean?)