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Mournful vs Yearnful - What's the difference?

mournful | yearnful |

As adjectives the difference between mournful and yearnful

is that mournful is filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns while yearnful is filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.

mournful

English

Alternative forms

* mournfull

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
  • Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
  • * (Edgar Allan Poe)
    • Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    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.}}