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yearning - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: yearning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: desire
Synonyms: ache, ambition, appetite, aspiration, craving, craze, eagerness, fancy, fascination, hankering*, hunger, infatuation, liking, longing, love, need, passion, thirst, urge, want
Main Entry: yearn
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: desire strongly
Synonyms: ache, be desirous of, be eager for, be passionate, chafe, covet, crave, dream, hanker, have a crush on, have a yen for, hunger, itch, languish, long, lust, pine, set one's heart on, thirst, want, wish for
Antonyms: dislike, hate
Main Entry: amatory
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: affectionate, desirous
Synonyms: amorous, aphrodisiac, ardent, devoted, doting, erotic, fervent, fond, languishing, lovesick, loving, passionate, rapturous, romantic, sentimental, tender, yearning, admiring, attracted, wooing
Antonyms: hateful, unfriendly
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
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
Main Entry: compassion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tender feeling
Synonyms: benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, consideration, empathy, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humanity, kindness, mercy, softness, sorrow, sympathy, tenderness, yearning, humaneness, lenity, softheartedness, tenderheartedness
Antonyms: cruelty, harshness, hatred, indifference, meanness, tyranny, mercilessness
Main Entry: covetous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: greedy; very desirous
Synonyms: acquisitive, avaricious, avid, eager, envious, gluttonous, grasping, green-eyed*, itchy*, jealous, keen, mercenary, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, voracious, yearning, close-fisted, ensurient, grabby, grudging, hogging, piggish, prehensile, swinish
Antonyms: benevolent, generous, giving
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
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
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
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
Main Entry: enterprising
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: resourceful, energetic
Synonyms: active, adventurous, aggressive, alert, ambitious, aspiring, audacious, bold, busy, craving, daring, dashing, diligent, driving, eager, enthusiastic, go-ahead*, hardworking, hungry, hustling, industrious, intrepid, keen, lively, peppy, progressive, pushing, ready, snappy, spanking, spark plug, spirited, stirring, up-and-coming*, venturesome, vigorous, yearning, zealous, zippy*, advancing, coming on strong, go-go, gumptious, hard ball, itching, lusting, self-starting, take-over
Antonyms: inactive, passive, unimaginative, unadventurous, unambitious, unenthused, unresourceful
Main Entry: envious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: jealous, resentful
Synonyms: aspiring, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, distrustful, grasping, greedy, green-eyed*, hankering, invidious, jaundiced, malicious, spiteful, suspicious, watchful, wishful, yearning, appetent, begrudging, coveting, fain, green with envy, grudging, longing for, umbrageous
Antonyms: comfortable, confident, content, kind, pleased, unenvious
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
Main Entry: homesick
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nostalgic
Synonyms: hankering, heartsick, lonely, missing, wistful, yearning, longing for home
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
Main Entry: hungry
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: starving; desirous
Synonyms: avid, carnivorous, covetous, craving, eager, empty, famished, greedy, hankering, hollow, keen, omnivorous, rapacious, ravenous, starved, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning, athirst, could eat a horse, edacious, esurient, famishing, flying light, got the munchies, hoggish, hungered, insatiate, on empty stomach, piggish
Antonyms: full, replete, satisfied, stuffed, satiated
Main Entry: insatiable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: voracious, wanting
Synonyms: clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent, gluttonous, greedy, importunate, insistent, intemperate, pressing, rapacious, ravenous, unsatisfied, urgent, yearning, insatiate, quenchless, unappeasable, unquenchable, unsatisfiable
Antonyms: fulfilled, full, pleased, satisfied, satiable
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
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