yearn
verb (used without object)
to have an earnest or strong desire; long.
yearner
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a word derived from
yearn.
Example Sentences
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But I also am a yearner and I love love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Maybe it’s that lead singer Morrissey’s outsider mentality and melancholic words resonate with the demographic — or there’s something acutely relatable about the melodramatic musings of a romantic yearner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Redmayne plays a creep; Henry, a yearner; Keoghan, a simpleton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
A natural ecstatic, he was also a chronic depressive: not a passive shut-down case, but a lamenter and yearner.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2010
Jimmy says the butcher is a good yearner too, but he does it by going red in the face and trying to burst his collar with his neck.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman
