Englishhanker
verb
she still hankered to go back |
they hankered for the bright lights of the capital:
yearn, long, have a longing, have a hankering, crave, desire, wish, want, hunger, thirst, lust, ache, be aching, itch, be itching, burn, be burning, pant, want badly, be eager, be desperate, be hungry, be greedy, be thirsty, be consumed with a/the desire, be eating one's heart out;
fancy, pine for, have one's heart set on;
informal be dying, have a yen;
archaic be desirous, be athirst;
rare suspire.
▷antonyms be averse.
| choose the right word | hanker, yearn, long, pine |
| See yearn. | |
hanker Oxford Dictionary of English