yearn

Speech parts

1. yearn - Noun

2. yearn - Verb

Meaning

To curdle, as milk.

To pain; to grieve; to vex.

To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.

To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pine long yen ache languish hanker miss hank jones need list pant want desire hope
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Antonyms

hate forget discount dislike disdain despise
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Hypernyms

long want desire treasure cherish hanker

Hyponyms

pine die yen ache languish

Phrases with the word

my people yearn for freedom to yearn

Derivatives

yearned yearning

Anagrams

renay Aeryn Arney aryne Neary Neyra Raney rayne Yaren yarne

Examples

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. Frank Gehry

I love those who yearn for the impossible. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble. Richard Russo

One is never too old to yearn. Italian Proverb

If you give away what you have, you will not yearn for what you see. Mexican Proverb

Close letter words and terms

yearly period yearly period of low rainfall yearman yearne yearned-for yearner