'Longing' definitions:
Definition of 'longing'
From: WordNet
noun
Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need [syn: longing, yearning, hungriness]
Definition of 'Longing'
From: GCIDE
- Long \Long\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Longed; p. pr. & vb. n. Longing.] [AS. langian to increase, to lengthen, to stretch out the mind after, to long, to crave, to belong to, fr. lang long. See Long, a.]
- 1. To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by for or after. [1913 Webster]
- I long to see you. --Rom. i. 11. [1913 Webster]
- I have longed after thy precepts. --Ps. cxix. 40. [1913 Webster]
- I have longed for thy salvation. --Ps. cxix. 174. [1913 Webster]
- Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The labor which that longeth unto me. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Longing'
From: GCIDE
- Longing \Long"ing\, n. An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration. [1913 Webster]
- Put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'longing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
Words containing 'Longing'
- Long,
- Longe,
- Longed,
- Longingly,
- Longly,
- Longness,
- Of long,
- as long as,
- before long,
- so long,
- As broad as long,
- At long running,
- At the long run,
- By a long chalk,
- Ere long,
- In the long run,
- Long Beach,
- Long Beach, IN,
- Long Branch,
- Long County,
- Long Creek,
- Long Creek, OR,
- Long Grove,
- Long Hill,
- Long Island,
- Long Lake,
- Long Neck,
- Long Parliament,
- Long Pine,
- Long Point,
- Long Prairie,
- Long Valley,
- Long View,
- Long clam,
- Long cloth,
- Long clothes,
- Long division,
- Long dozen,
- Long home,
- Long measure,
- Long meter,
- Long moss,
- Long pepper,
- Long price,
- Long primer,
- Long purple,
- Long purse,
- Long roll,
- Long sea,
- Long suit,
- Long tom,
- Long wall,
- Long, GA,
- Long, OK,
- The long and the short,
- To be long of the market,
- To have a long head,
- all day long,
- at long last,
- by a long shot,
- long ago,
- long bone,
- long chain,
- long distance,
- long established,
- long face,
- long faced,
- long fluke,
- long fly,
- long haul,
- long horse,
- long hundred,
- long hundredweight,
- long iron,
- long johns,
- long jump,
- long lasting,
- long lived,
- long pants,
- long pennant,
- long pillow,
- long plane,
- long range,
- long run,
- long shot,
- long since,
- long sleeve,
- long slip,
- long standing,
- long suffering,
- long term,
- long time,
- long ton,
- long trousers,
- long underwear,
- long wave,
- long whist,
- long winded,
- longed-for,
- not by a long sight,
- tai long,
- Groton Long Point,
- Long Beach, CA,
- Long Beach, MN,
- Long Beach, MS,
- Long Beach, NY,
- Long Beach, WA,
- Long Branch, NJ,
- Long Branch, PA,
- Long County, GA,
- Long Creek, IL,
- Long Grove, IA,
- Long Grove, IL,
- Long Hill, CT,
- Long Island, KS,
- Long Lake, IL,
- Long Lake, MN,
- Long Lake, SD,
- Long Neck, DE,
- Long Pine, NE,
- Long Point, IL,
- Long Prairie, MN,
- Long Valley, NJ,
- Long View, NC,
- Long-armed,
- Long-breathed,
- Long-drawn,
- Long-headedness,
- Long-horned,
- Long-lived,
- Long-sight,
- Long-sighted,
- Long-sightedness,
- Long-stop,
- Long-sufferance,
- Long-suffering,
- Long-tongue,
- Long-tongued,
- Long-waisted,
- Long-winded,
- Long-windedness,
- To be on the long side of the market,
- To draw a long bow,
- To go long of the market,
- West Long Branch,
- go a long way,
- long beech fern,
- long island sound,
- long saphenous vein,
- long-acting,
- long-ago,
- long-beard,
- long-bodied,
- long-branched,
- long-chain,
- long-dated,
- long-distance,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-faced,
- long-familiar,
- long-haired,
- long-handled,
- long-headed,
- long-jawed,
- long-lasting,
- long-legged,
- long-legs,
- long-life,
- long-play,
- long-playing,
- long-range,
- long-run,
- long-shanked,
- long-snouted,
- long-spurred,
- long-stalked,
- long-standing,
- long-staple,
- long-term,
- long-wearing,
- long-windedly,
- long-wool,
- long-wooled,
- year-long,
- 00-database-long,
- 00-gcide-long,
- Groton Long Point, CT,
- Long-boned shad,
- Long-legged plover,
- Paramount-Long Meadow,
- West Long Branch, NJ,
- long-billed dowitcher,
- long-chain molecule,
- long-clawed prawn,
- long-distance call,
- long-distance runner,
- long-eared bat,
- long-eared owl,
- long-fin tunny,
- long-handled spade,
- long-head coneflower,
- long-horned beetle,
- long-horned grasshopper,
- long-line fishing,
- long-neck clam,
- long-spurred violet,
- long-staple cotton,
- long-tailed cat,
- long-tailed porcupine,
- long-tailed weasel,
- long-term memory,
- since a long time ago,
- yard-long bean,
- Calvert Beach-Long Beach,
- Paramount-Long Meadow, MD,
- long-billed marsh wren,
- Calvert Beach-Long Beach, MD,
- ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system