Longing

Verb
longing



Noun

 * 1) An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
 * 2) The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise

Synonyms

 * yen

Adjectives for Longing
wild; nostalgic; vain; impassioned; sympathetic; premature; indefinite; wholesome; satisfied; strange;  unpenetrated;  mad; hopeless; immortal; musical; fond; earnest; unconscious; unchaste; new-born; inexplicable; vague; anxious; unceasing; indefinable; passionate; animal; earliest; patent; potent; half-deadly; half-voluptuous; persistent; bitter; fruitless; diseased; morbid; innermost; undefined; restless; ungratified; irresistible; painful; cruel; insatiate; ceaseless; upward; uncontrollable; faded; singular; doglike.

Verbs for Longing
abate—; conceive—; devour by—; fulfill—; gratify—; hatch—; live in—; quench—; respect—; sate—; satisfy—; suffer—; uproot—; —burns; —destroys; —gnaws; — palls; —tantalizes; —tears at.

Thesaurus
Heimweh, aching, craving, desiderium, desire, fancy, hankering, homesick, homesickness, honing, hunger, languishing, languishment, mal du pays, maladie du pays, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, pining, wish, wishful, wistful, yearnful, yearning, yen

Noun

 * Arabic: شوق
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew: כמיהה (kmi-ha), כִּיסּוּפִים (kisufim), כלה


 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cianalas, iarraidh , fadachd , miann , ionndrainn
 * Spanish: añoranza
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,

Related terms

 * long