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Distressing vs Yearnful - What's the difference?

distressing | yearnful |

As adjectives the difference between distressing and yearnful

is that distressing is causing distress; upsetting while yearnful is filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.

As a verb distressing

is .

distressing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing distress; upsetting

    • Verb

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    • yearnful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.
  • *{{quote-book, 1570, Richard Edwards, A select collection of old English plays, Volume 4, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA43&id=KM6G6FDmJNoC, page=43, chapter=Damon and Pithias
    • , passage=So now lend me thy yearnful tunes to utter my sorrow.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1886, author=, title=Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Ah! they were grand days, those deep, full days, when our coming life, like an unseen organ, pealed strange, yearnful music in our ears, and our young blood cried out like a war-horse for the battle. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1919, author=Albert Payson Terhune, title=O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919, chapter=The Strike, edition= citation
    • , passage=I am yearnful to know who was the unhappy person the wicked general threatened. }}

    Derived terms

    * yearnfully * yearnfulness

    Usage notes

    * This term was once widely and disapprovingly attributed to the poet . **{{quote-book, **, year=1900, author=Rupert Hughes, title=Contemporary American Composers, work= citation , passage=It abounded in emotion, and was--to use the impossible word Keats coined--"yearnful ."}} **{{quote-book, **, 1902, Leon Mead, Word-coinage, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA19&id=7qsVAAAAYAAJ, page=19 , passage=Men of genius have been guilty of some queer word-coinages. Keats coined the impossible word yearnful ; but this was not his gravest offense.}} **{{quote-book, **, year=1903, author=Rupert Hughes, title=The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1, work= citation , passage=This is the last of these letters to which one could apply so fitly the barbarous word "yearnful ," once coined by Keats.}}