Synonyms for yearn
yɜrnyearn

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1. yearn

   Synonyms:
   long, hanker, crave, covet, desire

   Antonyms:
   loathe, revolt, recoil, shudder

2. yearn

   Synonyms:
   long for, be eager for

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1. hanker, long, yearnverb

   desire strongly or persistently

   Synonyms:
   yen, pine, ache, hanker, languish, long

2. ache, yearn, yen, pine, languishverb

   have a desire for something or someone who is not present

   "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"

   Synonyms:
   smart, languish, hurt, fade, pine away, long, ache, suffer, pine, hanker, waste, yen

3. yearnverb

   have affection for; feel tenderness for

   Synonyms:
   yen, pine, ache, hanker, languish, long

Matched Categories

1. • Care For
   • Desire

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1. yearnverb

   Synonyms:
   long, be eager, feel a strong desire

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1. yearnverb

   Synonyms:
   long, desire, hanker after, pine

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1. List of paraphrases for "yearn":

   aspires

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How to use yearn in a sentence?

1. Ivan Duque:

   Peace is something all Colombians yearn for and peace means that we turn the page on the fissures that have divided us.

2. Czon:

   I'm always looking for my place in life and always yearn away to somewhere else, some other time.

3. José Ortega y Gasset:

   Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

4. Ivan Duque:

   Peace is something all Colombians yearn for, and peace means that we turn the page on the fractures that have divided us into friends and enemies of peace, today, we're all friends to build that peace and it must be a peace that above all allows the guerrilla base its demobilization, its disarmament and its effective reinsertion.

5. Prime Minister Lyonchoen Tshering Tobgay:

   We must find ways of energizing GNH in rural areas, so young people build their careers and families in our beautiful villages as mature modern men and women, and don't only yearn for the city lights.