longed-for

Speech parts

1. longed-for - Adjective

2. longed-for - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

greatly desired

Alternative names

longed for

Synonyms

Examples

Now the longed-for signal has appeared. Yet when happiness comes it brings less joy than one expected. Constantine P. Cavafy

I love a bright fort on a shining slope, Where a fair, shy girl loves watching gulls. I'd like to go, though I get no great love, On a longed-for visit on a slender white horse To seek my love of the quiet laughter, To recite love, since it's come my way. Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd

He quoted the Irish poet Seamus Heaney saying "Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme." Source: Internet

Lighting the pyre with a firebrand, she sends Wotan's ravens home with "anxiously longed-for tidings"; they fly off. Source: Internet

The jobs inside this firm were very longed-for because it was the only firm in Trapani province which had a Health insurance fund and granted holidays. Source: Internet

They were hoping to conceive, but the longed-for event never happened, even though Margaret returned to England for six months for an operation. Source: Internet

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