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
O thou yearner after the Kingdom of God!
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
