Definition of "longed-for" []

• Greatly desired (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Say the word out loud and feel that it will take you to the heart of your longed-for home."
• "They go on to propose that a song is a ship, which is to say that it enables your heart to set sail across the ecstatic ocean of emotions with its longed-for horizon, ever so close but so far away."
• "And now comes Woodward, who said yesterday the longed-for swap is "on the table" and could happen "if the president's a little weak going into 2012 ....""