hankering

Speech parts

1. hankering - Noun

2. hankering - Verb

Meaning

of Hanker

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

yen jones need animalism want desire hope wish taste attraction passion impulse eager hunger affection
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Antonyms

gully malice loathing phi detestation opposition
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Hypernyms

longing yearning hungriness

Phrases with the word

have a hankering for

Anagrams

harkening Kernighan

Examples

The hankering of the mind is irresistible. Adam Weishaupt

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. Bertrand Russell

She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge... Arthur Ransome

The desire to possess, the thirst for and the hankering after pleasure or the means thereof, preceded by a remembrance of the pleasure in one has who has enjoyed it, is attachment. Vyasa

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship. Eddy Arnold

There's nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I've got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I'm taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues - a coal, gas and smoker - so I can experiment a lot. Guy Fieri

Close letter words and terms

hankerchief hankered after hankerer hankeringly Hankerson Hankes