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longing - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | longing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desirous |
| Synonyms: | anxious, ardent, avid, craving, eager, hungry, languishing, ravenous, wishful, wistful, yearning, pining |
| Antonyms: | loathing, despising, hating |
| Main Entry: | longing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | ambition, aspiration, craving, hankering, hunger, itch, thirst, urge, wish, yearning, yen, coveting, fire in the belly, hungering, pining |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | long |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire, crave |
| Synonyms: | ache, aim, aspire, covet, hanker, hunger, itch, lust, miss, pine, sigh, thirst, want, wish, yearn, dream of, have a yen for, spoil for, suspire |
| Antonyms: | despise, dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | appetite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire for food, worldly goods |
| Synonyms: | craving, demand, fondness, greed, hankering, hunger, inclination, itch*, liking, longing, lust, passion, penchant, proclivity, propensity, relish, soft spot*, stomach, sweet tooth*, taste, thirst, urge, voracity, weakness, willingness, yearning, yen, zeal, zest, appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, gluttony, ravenousness |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repulsion, revulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aspiration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal, hope |
| Synonyms: | aim, ambition, craving, desire, direction, dream, eagerness, endeavor, hankering, inclination, longing, object, objective, passion, pursuit, push, right stuff*, urge, vocation, wish, work, yearning, ambitiousness, fire in the belly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aspiring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeful |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, aspirant, eager, eager beaver*, enthusiastic, impassioned, longing, striving, wishful, would-be, zealous, endeavoring, on the make |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | craving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | appetite, hankering, hunger, itch*, longing, lust, need, passion, thirst, urge, yearning, yen*, appetition, hurting, munchies |
| Antonyms: | dislike, distaste, hate, indifference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed, strong desire |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, eagerness, hunger, infatuation, longing, lust, passion, rapacity, voracity, yearning, acquisitiveness, avariciousness, graspingness, greediness, itching, possessiveness, rapaciousness |
| Antonyms: | dislike, distaste |
| Main Entry: | desirous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aspiring, hopeful |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, ambitious, amorous, anxious, avid, covetous, craving, desiring, eager, enthusiastic, grasping, greedy, hot*, itchy*, keen, longing, lustful, passionate, ready, stimulated, willing, wishful, wishing, yearning, prehensile, turned on |
| Antonyms: | reluctant, unenthusiastic, unambitious, unhopeful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eager |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, agog, ambitious, antsy, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, champing at the bit, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, dying to, earnest, fervent, fervid, greedy, gung ho*, hankering, heated, hot to trot, hot*, hungry*, impatient, intent, keen, longing, pining, rarin' to go, ready and willing, restive, restless, self-starting, solicitous, thirsty, vehement, voracious, warmblooded, wild, wishful, yearning, zealous |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disinterested, dispassionate, unconcerned, uneager, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eagerness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm, anxiousness |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, ambition, anticipation, ardor, avidity, earnestness, excitement, fervor, gusto, hunger, impatience, keenness, longing, promptness, quickness, solicitude, thirst, vehemence, voracity, yearning, zeal, zest, zing*, greediness, heartiness, impetuosity, intentness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, disinterest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, excess, hunger, indulgence, intemperance, longing, rapacity, selfishness, voracity, acquisitiveness, edacity, esurience, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, insatiableness, piggishness, ravenousness, swinishness, the gimmies |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, generosity |
| Main Entry: | hankering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | ache, craving, hunger, itch*, longing, thirst, urge, want, weakness, wish, yearning, yen, druthers, fire in belly, munchies, pining |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hunger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite for food, other desire |
| Synonyms: | ache, bottomless pit*, craving, desire, emptiness, famine, greed, longing, lust, mania, starvation, sweet tooth*, vacancy, void, voracity, want, yearning, yen, a stomach for, appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, esurience, eyes for, famishment, gluttony, greediness, hungriness, munchies, ravenousness |
| Antonyms: | satisfaction, satiation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite, passion |
| Synonyms: | avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, desire, eroticism, excitement, fervor, greed, hunger, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libido, longing, thirst, urge, weakness, yen, animalism, aphrodisia, appetence, appetition, carnality, licentiousness, prurience, pruriency, salaciousness, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, wantonness |
| Antonyms: | chastity, disgust, disenchantment |
| Main Entry: | nostalgia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant remembrances |
| Synonyms: | homesickness, longing, reminiscence, remorse, sentimentality, yearning, fond memories, hearts and flowers, pining, schmaltz, tear-jerker, wistfulness |
| Main Entry: | nostalgic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | longingly remembering |
| Synonyms: | homesick, lonesome, longing, mushy*, regretful, sappy*, sentimental, sloppy, wistful, yearning, cornball, down memory lane, drippy, like yesterday, syrupy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | raring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eager |
| Synonyms: | enthusiastic, keen, longing, ready, willing, champing at the bit, itching |
| Antonyms: | reluctant |
| Main Entry: | thirst |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craving (especially for liquid) |
| Synonyms: | appetite, desire, drought, dryness, eagerness, hankering, hunger, keenness, longing, lust, passion, yearning, yen, aridity, thirstiness |
| Main Entry: | thirsty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dry, desirous (especially for liquid) |
| Synonyms: | agog*, anxious, ardent, arid, avid, breathless, burning, craving, eager, greedy, hankering, hungry, impatient, inclined, keen, longing, parched, yearning, appetent, athirst, bone-dry, cottonmouthed, crazy for, dehydrated, droughty, dry as dust, dying for, itching for, juiceless, lusting, partial to, sapless, thirsting, waterless, wild for |
| Antonyms: | moist, satisfied, wet, quenched |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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