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Adjective yearning has 1 sense
  1. wistful, yearning - full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds"
    Antonym: glad (indirect, via sad)
,Noun yearning has 1 sense
  1. longing, yearning - prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
    --1 is a kind of desire
    --1 has particulars:
     hankering, yen; pining; wishfulness; wistfulness; nostalgia; discontentment, discontent, discontentedness
    Derived forms: verb yearn2, verb yearn1
,Verb yearn has 3 senses
  1. hanker, long, yearn - desire strongly or persistently
    --1 is one way to desire, want
    Derived forms: noun yearner1, noun yearning1
    Sample sentence:
    They yearn to move
  2. ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish - have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
    --2 is one way to hanker, long, yearn
    Derived forms: noun yearner1, noun yearning1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s PP
  3. yearn - have affection for; feel tenderness for
    --3 is one way to     care for, cherish, hold dear, treasure
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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