long for
Deeply want something
To long for something is to yearn or ache for it deeply: She longed for home, He longed for the days before the accident.
The phrase implies sustained desire, often for something absent, lost, or unattainable.
You long for people, places, feelings, or states of being—rarely for objects you could simply acquire.
Deeply desire something
- achePersistent dull discomfort
- pineCone-bearing evergreen
- craveIntensely desire something
- desireIntense wanting
hunger · thirst · want · wish · hope · dream · covet · hanker
Recall past experiences fondly
- memoriesStored past experiences
- yesteryearTime not long past
- bygoneOf earlier times
- homesickLonging for one's dwelling
retrospect · sentimentality · flashback · recollect · wistful · halcyon · keepsake · souvenir
yearn
Deeply desire something
desire · hunger · thirst · want · wish · hope · dream · covet · hanker · miss
reminisce
Recall past experiences fondly
- memoriesStored past experiences
- yesteryearTime not long past
- bygoneOf earlier times
homesick · retrospect · sentimentality · flashback · recollect · wistful · halcyon · keepsake · souvenir · reverie
mourn
Grieve for the dead
- grieveFeel sorrow over loss
- lossBeing without something
- bereavementState following loss
bereft · forlorn · sorrow · lament · deceased · departed · absence · widow · memorial · eulogy
- preferencespreferences, prefer, likes, like, liking
- expectationsexpect, expectation, anticipate, expectancy, await
- rose-tinted thinkingidealize, glorify, sugarcoat, embellish, prettify