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yearny

yearny adjective: indicating strong desire, passion, or longing; eager.

Adjective

yearny (comparative yearnier or more yearny, superlative yearniest or most yearny)

  1. Indicating strong desire, passion, or longing; eager.
    • It was beautiful and made me feel yearny for home.2003, Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light
    • I was slooshying more like malenky romantic songs, what they call Lieder, just a goloss and a piano, very quiet and like yearny, different from when it had been all bolshy orchestras and me lying on the bed between […]1962, Anthony Burgess, edited by Mark Rawlison, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2011, →ISBN, page 118
  2. Overly desirous; sentimental.
    • "Long Ago and Far Away," "Sentimental Journey": "Never thought my heart could be so yearny, Why did I decide to roam? Gotta take that sentimental journey, Sentimental journey home."2009, Stefan Kanfer, Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
    • Apart from the pathetic yearny crush bit, obviously.2011, Jill Mansell, To The Moon and Back

Forms of yearny

comparativeyearnier
comparativemore yearny
superlativeyearniest
superlativemost yearny

Origin of yearny

From yearn + -y.

Questions about yearny

What does yearny mean?
Yearny means indicating strong desire, passion, or longing; eager.
What part of speech is yearny?
Yearny is an adjective.

Words near yearny in the dictionary

  1. yearningness
  2. yearnings
  3. yearns
  4. yearnsome
  5. yearnt
  6. yearny
  7. yearold
  8. Yearout
  9. Yearouts
  10. years
  11. Years of Lead

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