Definition of yearning in English:

yearning

noun ˈjəːnɪŋˈjərnɪŋ

A feeling of intense longing for something.
he felt a yearning for the mountains
Example sentencesExamples
- Its tranquil moments convey a nostalgic yearning common to Japanese folk music.
- Onto this fairytale princess many women projected their own unsatisfied yearnings: they identified with her vulnerability, her perceived status as a victim.
- But life has never been kind to these devoted companions, whose romantic yearnings flounder and remain unrequited.
- The feminine side in all of us sometimes represents fulfilment of spiritual yearnings.
- My yearnings for the taste of meat are becoming almost animalistic in their fervour.
- No, my yearnings stemmed from pure, unadulterated greed.
- But even in these cases, there is sometimes a lingering sense of kinship with another America, the America of unrequited yearnings.
- There's an, Oh, such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
- Galloway Street beautifully captures the harshness of poverty and the warm good humour of a childhood dominated by songs, yarns and the yearnings of his Irish relatives for their native land.
- Rorty has known the call of intense and ultimately spiritual yearnings.
- I gave up the yearnings for a boyfriend at about 30, when I bought my first house, which may or may not be a coincidence.
- But then he wants a car with a powerful engine and the yearning returns.
- This yearning goes beyond the simple need for an anthropomorphic father - figure; rather, it goes to the very core of our being.
- But while Linda wants to give up trying for a child, Pete still has parental yearnings.
- As the novel unreels at a pace fitting for a neighbourhood of fly fishers, Gary's adolescent yearnings and religious fears become the frame for a deeper story.
- Maimonides compares this to the intense yearnings that a man feels for a woman.
- The feelings evoked; the longings unleashed; the yearnings induced; the awe inspired.
- By the end of the series, only one couple had succeeded in turning their parental yearnings into bundles of joy (twins, as it happened).
- I sense the wishes and yearnings that are in your soul!
- The outer movements are undistinguished but the central adagio swoons with escapist yearnings for the unattainable.
- He was the hope of the family, especially of his father whose own showbiz yearnings had ended up in the debit column, but he was booed off stage again and again and again.
Synonyms
longing, pining, craving, desire, want, wish, hankering, urge, need, hunger, hungering, thirst, appetite, greed, lust, ache, burning, fancy, inclination, eagerness, fervour
informal yen, itch
rare cacoethes

adjective ˈjəːnɪŋˈjərnɪŋ

Involving or expressing yearning.
a yearning hope
Example sentencesExamples
- Instinct kicked in and I slowly bent my head towards hers, leaning down to press my yearning lips against her innocent ones.
- She gazed directly at Ryan with yearning eyes, and Ryan felt like she was speaking specifically of him, which made him feel good.
- There's a mixture of trepidation and euphoria to this song as it timidly climbs: the yearning sound of the violin constantly clawing over the quickening beat.
- She gave a bright and curious performance in the film but it was the emotional vibrato of her rendition of ‘Over the Rainbow’ which set the yearning tone of her career.
- The veil was lifted and the eyes moved in close, so close that I imagined I could see clear into her twenty-something spinster soul and the lonely yearning girl beyond.
- What is the suppressed focus, the yearning urge in our species to be so neccessarily linked?
- It allows yearning singles to evaluate what a persons' personality is like even before they get an opportunity to make awkward eye contact.
- The tenderest, most yearning word in Fleming's lexicon is ‘cruel’.
- The accompanying soundtrack has the yearning vocal of one José González.
- In all the yearning literature this place has spawned, the only indigenous characters are servants and bearers and extras - and that's shaming.
- Then, with one yearning look toward her uncle Deane's house, that lay farther down the river, she took to both her oars, and rowed with all her might across the watery fields back toward the Mill.
- He had something of a hungry, yearning look to his face.
- An occasional soul, defying all these constrains, wants to realize this truth and overcome illusion, and such a yearning soul is a fit person to become a disciple.
- Then he slowed the sound to a soft, yearning beat.
- Taking his cues from such veterans as David Byrne, Moore uses his latest release as a vehicle for exploring the heart of an artist given over to yearning love and crusading anger.
- Throughout these films and now in Goddess, Law betrays a yearning passion to mine the inner worlds of her characters, to find out what it is that makes them cry, laugh, dance and desire.
- Running through the film is a yearning nostalgia for the social unity of the war years, remembered fondly as Britain's ‘finest hour’.
- John Savage's yearning flute sound, with the band closing around him like shadows in moonlight, is exquisite on Faded Beauty.
- Martha's self-titled debut shows that raspy, yearning voice to good effect, along with a remarkably-developed songwriting talent all her own.
- Is there no unhappy David to whom I can sing the yearning psalms of love?

Derivatives

yearningly

adverb ˈjəːnɪŋliˈjərnɪŋli

We watch from Feste's point of view, as ‘CESARIO is yearningly aroused - and begins slowly, slowly to turn her head towards ORSINO'S mouth’.
Example sentencesExamples
- I am glad to have MITECS on my shelf I glance at its covers yearningly and think to myself: If only I understood all of those 741 entries.
- Her gaze wandered to Christopher almost yearningly, whose attention was preoccupied by Matt.
- Now history reveals that looking yearningly to America for inspiration in moments of crisis has in fact been a recurrent impulse within Britain's leading groups.
- Young girl in a baseball cap, one more of the travelling performers who ask for money, stands beside us for a long time, looking yearningly at our son's crayons and colouring book.

Rhymes

discerning, Herning, turning

Definition of yearning in US English:

yearning

nounˈyərniNGˈjərnɪŋ

A feeling of intense longing for something.
he felt a yearning for the mountains
Example sentencesExamples
- I gave up the yearnings for a boyfriend at about 30, when I bought my first house, which may or may not be a coincidence.
- Maimonides compares this to the intense yearnings that a man feels for a woman.
- But while Linda wants to give up trying for a child, Pete still has parental yearnings.
- Its tranquil moments convey a nostalgic yearning common to Japanese folk music.
- But even in these cases, there is sometimes a lingering sense of kinship with another America, the America of unrequited yearnings.
- Onto this fairytale princess many women projected their own unsatisfied yearnings: they identified with her vulnerability, her perceived status as a victim.
- The feminine side in all of us sometimes represents fulfilment of spiritual yearnings.
- But then he wants a car with a powerful engine and the yearning returns.
- My yearnings for the taste of meat are becoming almost animalistic in their fervour.
- This yearning goes beyond the simple need for an anthropomorphic father - figure; rather, it goes to the very core of our being.
- The feelings evoked; the longings unleashed; the yearnings induced; the awe inspired.
- By the end of the series, only one couple had succeeded in turning their parental yearnings into bundles of joy (twins, as it happened).
- I sense the wishes and yearnings that are in your soul!
- There's an, Oh, such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
- As the novel unreels at a pace fitting for a neighbourhood of fly fishers, Gary's adolescent yearnings and religious fears become the frame for a deeper story.
- The outer movements are undistinguished but the central adagio swoons with escapist yearnings for the unattainable.
- He was the hope of the family, especially of his father whose own showbiz yearnings had ended up in the debit column, but he was booed off stage again and again and again.
- Galloway Street beautifully captures the harshness of poverty and the warm good humour of a childhood dominated by songs, yarns and the yearnings of his Irish relatives for their native land.
- Rorty has known the call of intense and ultimately spiritual yearnings.
- But life has never been kind to these devoted companions, whose romantic yearnings flounder and remain unrequited.
- No, my yearnings stemmed from pure, unadulterated greed.
Synonyms
longing, pining, craving, desire, want, wish, hankering, urge, need, hunger, hungering, thirst, appetite, greed, lust, ache, burning, fancy, inclination, eagerness, fervour

adjectiveˈyərniNGˈjərnɪŋ

Involving or expressing yearning.
a yearning hope
Example sentencesExamples
- Is there no unhappy David to whom I can sing the yearning psalms of love?
- The veil was lifted and the eyes moved in close, so close that I imagined I could see clear into her twenty-something spinster soul and the lonely yearning girl beyond.
- An occasional soul, defying all these constrains, wants to realize this truth and overcome illusion, and such a yearning soul is a fit person to become a disciple.
- He had something of a hungry, yearning look to his face.
- She gazed directly at Ryan with yearning eyes, and Ryan felt like she was speaking specifically of him, which made him feel good.
- Running through the film is a yearning nostalgia for the social unity of the war years, remembered fondly as Britain's ‘finest hour’.
- She gave a bright and curious performance in the film but it was the emotional vibrato of her rendition of ‘Over the Rainbow’ which set the yearning tone of her career.
- It allows yearning singles to evaluate what a persons' personality is like even before they get an opportunity to make awkward eye contact.
- Martha's self-titled debut shows that raspy, yearning voice to good effect, along with a remarkably-developed songwriting talent all her own.
- Then, with one yearning look toward her uncle Deane's house, that lay farther down the river, she took to both her oars, and rowed with all her might across the watery fields back toward the Mill.
- In all the yearning literature this place has spawned, the only indigenous characters are servants and bearers and extras - and that's shaming.
- John Savage's yearning flute sound, with the band closing around him like shadows in moonlight, is exquisite on Faded Beauty.
- The accompanying soundtrack has the yearning vocal of one José González.
- Then he slowed the sound to a soft, yearning beat.
- Instinct kicked in and I slowly bent my head towards hers, leaning down to press my yearning lips against her innocent ones.
- Throughout these films and now in Goddess, Law betrays a yearning passion to mine the inner worlds of her characters, to find out what it is that makes them cry, laugh, dance and desire.
- Taking his cues from such veterans as David Byrne, Moore uses his latest release as a vehicle for exploring the heart of an artist given over to yearning love and crusading anger.
- There's a mixture of trepidation and euphoria to this song as it timidly climbs: the yearning sound of the violin constantly clawing over the quickening beat.
- What is the suppressed focus, the yearning urge in our species to be so neccessarily linked?
- The tenderest, most yearning word in Fleming's lexicon is ‘cruel’.

词汇	yearning
释义	Definition of yearning in English: yearning noun ˈjəːnɪŋˈjərnɪŋ A feeling of intense longing for something. he felt a yearning for the mountains Example sentencesExamples Its tranquil moments convey a nostalgic yearning common to Japanese folk music. Onto this fairytale princess many women projected their own unsatisfied yearnings: they identified with her vulnerability, her perceived status as a victim. But life has never been kind to these devoted companions, whose romantic yearnings flounder and remain unrequited. The feminine side in all of us sometimes represents fulfilment of spiritual yearnings. My yearnings for the taste of meat are becoming almost animalistic in their fervour. No, my yearnings stemmed from pure, unadulterated greed. But even in these cases, there is sometimes a lingering sense of kinship with another America, the America of unrequited yearnings. There's an, Oh, such a hungry yearning burning inside of me. Galloway Street beautifully captures the harshness of poverty and the warm good humour of a childhood dominated by songs, yarns and the yearnings of his Irish relatives for their native land. Rorty has known the call of intense and ultimately spiritual yearnings. I gave up the yearnings for a boyfriend at about 30, when I bought my first house, which may or may not be a coincidence. But then he wants a car with a powerful engine and the yearning returns. This yearning goes beyond the simple need for an anthropomorphic father - figure; rather, it goes to the very core of our being. But while Linda wants to give up trying for a child, Pete still has parental yearnings. As the novel unreels at a pace fitting for a neighbourhood of fly fishers, Gary's adolescent yearnings and religious fears become the frame for a deeper story. Maimonides compares this to the intense yearnings that a man feels for a woman. The feelings evoked; the longings unleashed; the yearnings induced; the awe inspired. By the end of the series, only one couple had succeeded in turning their parental yearnings into bundles of joy (twins, as it happened). I sense the wishes and yearnings that are in your soul! The outer movements are undistinguished but the central adagio swoons with escapist yearnings for the unattainable. He was the hope of the family, especially of his father whose own showbiz yearnings had ended up in the debit column, but he was booed off stage again and again and again. Synonyms longing, pining, craving, desire, want, wish, hankering, urge, need, hunger, hungering, thirst, appetite, greed, lust, ache, burning, fancy, inclination, eagerness, fervour informal yen, itch rare cacoethes adjective ˈjəːnɪŋˈjərnɪŋ Involving or expressing yearning. a yearning hope Example sentencesExamples Instinct kicked in and I slowly bent my head towards hers, leaning down to press my yearning lips against her innocent ones. She gazed directly at Ryan with yearning eyes, and Ryan felt like she was speaking specifically of him, which made him feel good. There's a mixture of trepidation and euphoria to this song as it timidly climbs: the yearning sound of the violin constantly clawing over the quickening beat. She gave a bright and curious performance in the film but it was the emotional vibrato of her rendition of ‘Over the Rainbow’ which set the yearning tone of her career. The veil was lifted and the eyes moved in close, so close that I imagined I could see clear into her twenty-something spinster soul and the lonely yearning girl beyond. What is the suppressed focus, the yearning urge in our species to be so neccessarily linked? It allows yearning singles to evaluate what a persons' personality is like even before they get an opportunity to make awkward eye contact. The tenderest, most yearning word in Fleming's lexicon is ‘cruel’. The accompanying soundtrack has the yearning vocal of one José González. In all the yearning literature this place has spawned, the only indigenous characters are servants and bearers and extras - and that's shaming. Then, with one yearning look toward her uncle Deane's house, that lay farther down the river, she took to both her oars, and rowed with all her might across the watery fields back toward the Mill. He had something of a hungry, yearning look to his face. An occasional soul, defying all these constrains, wants to realize this truth and overcome illusion, and such a yearning soul is a fit person to become a disciple. Then he slowed the sound to a soft, yearning beat. Taking his cues from such veterans as David Byrne, Moore uses his latest release as a vehicle for exploring the heart of an artist given over to yearning love and crusading anger. Throughout these films and now in Goddess, Law betrays a yearning passion to mine the inner worlds of her characters, to find out what it is that makes them cry, laugh, dance and desire. Running through the film is a yearning nostalgia for the social unity of the war years, remembered fondly as Britain's ‘finest hour’. John Savage's yearning flute sound, with the band closing around him like shadows in moonlight, is exquisite on Faded Beauty. Martha's self-titled debut shows that raspy, yearning voice to good effect, along with a remarkably-developed songwriting talent all her own. Is there no unhappy David to whom I can sing the yearning psalms of love? Derivatives yearningly adverb ˈjəːnɪŋliˈjərnɪŋli We watch from Feste's point of view, as ‘CESARIO is yearningly aroused - and begins slowly, slowly to turn her head towards ORSINO'S mouth’. Example sentencesExamples I am glad to have MITECS on my shelf I glance at its covers yearningly and think to myself: If only I understood all of those 741 entries. Her gaze wandered to Christopher almost yearningly, whose attention was preoccupied by Matt. Now history reveals that looking yearningly to America for inspiration in moments of crisis has in fact been a recurrent impulse within Britain's leading groups. Young girl in a baseball cap, one more of the travelling performers who ask for money, stands beside us for a long time, looking yearningly at our son's crayons and colouring book. Rhymes discerning, Herning, turning Definition of yearning in US English: yearning nounˈyərniNGˈjərnɪŋ A feeling of intense longing for something. he felt a yearning for the mountains Example sentencesExamples I gave up the yearnings for a boyfriend at about 30, when I bought my first house, which may or may not be a coincidence. Maimonides compares this to the intense yearnings that a man feels for a woman. But while Linda wants to give up trying for a child, Pete still has parental yearnings. Its tranquil moments convey a nostalgic yearning common to Japanese folk music. But even in these cases, there is sometimes a lingering sense of kinship with another America, the America of unrequited yearnings. Onto this fairytale princess many women projected their own unsatisfied yearnings: they identified with her vulnerability, her perceived status as a victim. The feminine side in all of us sometimes represents fulfilment of spiritual yearnings. But then he wants a car with a powerful engine and the yearning returns. My yearnings for the taste of meat are becoming almost animalistic in their fervour. This yearning goes beyond the simple need for an anthropomorphic father - figure; rather, it goes to the very core of our being. The feelings evoked; the longings unleashed; the yearnings induced; the awe inspired. By the end of the series, only one couple had succeeded in turning their parental yearnings into bundles of joy (twins, as it happened). I sense the wishes and yearnings that are in your soul! There's an, Oh, such a hungry yearning burning inside of me. As the novel unreels at a pace fitting for a neighbourhood of fly fishers, Gary's adolescent yearnings and religious fears become the frame for a deeper story. The outer movements are undistinguished but the central adagio swoons with escapist yearnings for the unattainable. He was the hope of the family, especially of his father whose own showbiz yearnings had ended up in the debit column, but he was booed off stage again and again and again. Galloway Street beautifully captures the harshness of poverty and the warm good humour of a childhood dominated by songs, yarns and the yearnings of his Irish relatives for their native land. Rorty has known the call of intense and ultimately spiritual yearnings. But life has never been kind to these devoted companions, whose romantic yearnings flounder and remain unrequited. No, my yearnings stemmed from pure, unadulterated greed. Synonyms longing, pining, craving, desire, want, wish, hankering, urge, need, hunger, hungering, thirst, appetite, greed, lust, ache, burning, fancy, inclination, eagerness, fervour adjectiveˈyərniNGˈjərnɪŋ Involving or expressing yearning. a yearning hope Example sentencesExamples Is there no unhappy David to whom I can sing the yearning psalms of love? The veil was lifted and the eyes moved in close, so close that I imagined I could see clear into her twenty-something spinster soul and the lonely yearning girl beyond. An occasional soul, defying all these constrains, wants to realize this truth and overcome illusion, and such a yearning soul is a fit person to become a disciple. He had something of a hungry, yearning look to his face. She gazed directly at Ryan with yearning eyes, and Ryan felt like she was speaking specifically of him, which made him feel good. Running through the film is a yearning nostalgia for the social unity of the war years, remembered fondly as Britain's ‘finest hour’. She gave a bright and curious performance in the film but it was the emotional vibrato of her rendition of ‘Over the Rainbow’ which set the yearning tone of her career. It allows yearning singles to evaluate what a persons' personality is like even before they get an opportunity to make awkward eye contact. Martha's self-titled debut shows that raspy, yearning voice to good effect, along with a remarkably-developed songwriting talent all her own. Then, with one yearning look toward her uncle Deane's house, that lay farther down the river, she took to both her oars, and rowed with all her might across the watery fields back toward the Mill. In all the yearning literature this place has spawned, the only indigenous characters are servants and bearers and extras - and that's shaming. John Savage's yearning flute sound, with the band closing around him like shadows in moonlight, is exquisite on Faded Beauty. The accompanying soundtrack has the yearning vocal of one José González. Then he slowed the sound to a soft, yearning beat. Instinct kicked in and I slowly bent my head towards hers, leaning down to press my yearning lips against her innocent ones. Throughout these films and now in Goddess, Law betrays a yearning passion to mine the inner worlds of her characters, to find out what it is that makes them cry, laugh, dance and desire. Taking his cues from such veterans as David Byrne, Moore uses his latest release as a vehicle for exploring the heart of an artist given over to yearning love and crusading anger. There's a mixture of trepidation and euphoria to this song as it timidly climbs: the yearning sound of the violin constantly clawing over the quickening beat. What is the suppressed focus, the yearning urge in our species to be so neccessarily linked? The tenderest, most yearning word in Fleming's lexicon is ‘cruel’.
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