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yawny

yawny adjective: prone to yawning.

Adjective

yawny (comparative yawnier, superlative yawniest)

  1. Prone to yawning.
    • Waking up in the small room, you feel dull, stupid, gloomy, oppressed, yawny, lax, and all unstrung in body and mind...1848, Orson Squire Fowler, A Home for All
  2. Sounding like a yawn.
    • I drew the deepest, yawniest breath I could fake and swiftly lifted my right arm.2011, Craig Groeschel, Love, Sex, and Happily Ever After, page 13
  3. Boring, uninteresting, causing yawns.

Forms of yawny

comparativeyawnier
superlativeyawniest

Origin of yawny

From yawn + -y.

Words formed from yawny

Questions about yawny

What does yawny mean?
Yawny means prone to yawning.
What part of speech is yawny?
Yawny is an adjective.

Words near yawny in the dictionary

  1. yawnless
  2. yawns
  3. yawnsome
  4. yawnsville
  5. yawnups
  6. yawny
  7. yawp
  8. yawpan
  9. yawped
  10. yawper
  11. yawpers

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