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yearningly
adverb
uk /ˈjɜː.nɪŋ.li/ us /ˈjɝː.nɪŋ.li/
in a way that expresses a strong feeling of wishing for something, especially something that you cannot have or get easily:
The dog gazed yearningly at the door, waiting for its owner to come home from work.
In her groundbreaking debut album, she sings yearningly about lost love, ambition, and heartache.
Two lovers stood on the bridge, looking yearningly at each other.
The film shows a struggling young novelist yearningly pursuing fame and fortune.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feelings of desire
appetite
caprice
carnality
carnally
compulsion
desperation
entitled
hankering
hunger
impulse
impulse buy
itchy
need
temptation
thirst
urge
vaulting
whim
wish
yen
Synonym
longingly Related wordyearning
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