Synonyms of the word

hanker

• v. To crave, want or desire.

desire

• v. To want; to wish for earnestly.
• v. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
• v. To want emotionally or sexually.
• v. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
• v. To require; to demand; to claim.
• v. To miss; to regret.
• n. (countable) Someone or something wished for.
• n. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
• n. (uncountable) Motivation.
• n. (uncountable) The feeling of desire.

long

• adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually…
• adj. Having great duration.
• adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
• adj. (Britain, dialect) Not short; tall.
• adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim…
• adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent…
• adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out).
• adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
• adv. Over a great distance in space.
• adv. For a particular duration.
• adv. For a long duration.
• n. (linguistics) A long vowel.
• n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short,…
• n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
• n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
• v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
• v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
• adj. (archaic) On account of, because of.
• v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
• n. longitude.

want

• v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
• v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
• v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
• v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
• n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
• n. (uncountable) Poverty.
• n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
• n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

yearn

• v. (intransitive, construed with for) To long, have a strong desire (for something).
• v. (intransitive, construed with for) To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.
• v. (intransitive) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
• v. (transitive) To pain; to grieve; to vex.
• v. (Scotland) To curdle, as milk.
• n. (nonstandard) yen; yearning.