yearning :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (2)

longing, hungriness

n. prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

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Adjectives (1)

wistful

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

Fuzzynyms (21)

hope

n. the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope"

fondness, fancy, partiality

n. a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"

lecherousness, lust, lustfulness

n. a strong sexual desire

compulsion, obsession

n. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will; "her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly"

mania, passion, cacoethes

n. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative

adj. deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";

Synonyms (15)

bittersweet

adj. tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending"

heavyhearted

adj. depressed

depressive, gloomy, depressing, unhappy, saddening

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

melancholy, melancholic

adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

pensive, wistful

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

tragic, tragical

adj. very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"

tragicomic, tragicomical

adj. manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman

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