achingly
In yearning manner
Achingly intensifies feelings of longing, beauty, or slowness to the point of pain.
An achingly beautiful melody moves you almost to tears.
Progress can be achingly slow.
The word emphasizes that something affects you so deeply it produces a kind of sweet hurt: achingly familiar, achingly close to victory.
Causing extreme suffering
- piercingPenetrating or very sharp
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- profoundIntensely meaningful or insightful
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
acute · extreme · deep · vivid · powerful · consuming · sharp · burning
Wistful yet warm
- heartrendingCausing overwhelming grief
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
- elegiacSorrowfully commemorative
- touchingEvoking gentle emotion
sentimental · evocative · mournful · tender · sorrowful · plaintive · emotional · moving
Intense prolonged craving
- wistfulSadly longing for something
- piningAching with prolonged desire
- nostalgicLonging for the past
- homesickLonging for one's dwelling
craving · hankering · thirsting · hungering · wishful · dreaming · hoping · desiring
excruciating
Causing extreme suffering
- piercingPenetrating or very sharp
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- profoundIntensely meaningful or insightful
overwhelming · acute · extreme · deep · vivid · powerful · consuming · sharp · burning · throbbing
bittersweet
Wistful yet warm
- heartrendingCausing overwhelming grief
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
- elegiacSorrowfully commemorative
touching · sentimental · evocative · mournful · tender · sorrowful · plaintive · emotional · moving · wistful
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
homesick · craving · hankering · thirsting · hungering · wishful · dreaming · hoping · desiring · missing
gorgeous
Strikingly beautiful
- stunningExtremely impressive or beautiful
- exquisiteFlawlessly crafted, delicate
- breathtakingAstonishingly beautiful or exciting
sublime · lovely · radiant · perfect · delicate · ethereal · haunting · transcendent · ravishing · magnificent
gradual
Developing slowly over time
- crawlingMoving on hands, knees
- creepingMoving slowly, stealthily
- interminableWithout apparent conclusion
tedious · prolonged · endless · drawn-out · laborious · plodding · dragging · glacial · painstaking · tortuously
achinglyslightly
To a minor extent
barely · hardly · scarcely · minimally · marginally
achinglynumbly
Without physical sensation
unfeelingly · impassively · indifferently · coldly · dispassionately
- aching heartEmotional pain from love
- aching joints
- aching forIntensely desiring something