Yearnful vs Yearn - What's the difference?
yearnful | yearn | Derived terms |
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=
, 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=
, passage=I am yearnful to know who was the unhappy person the wicked general threatened. }}
To long, have a strong desire (for something).
* All I yearn for is a simple life.
To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically
To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
* Shakespeare
To pain; to grieve; to vex.
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Yearnful is a derived term of yearn.
As a adjective yearnful
is filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.As a verb yearn is
to long, have a strong desire (for something) or yearn can be (scotland) to curdle, as milk.yearnful
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Derived terms
* yearnfully * yearnfulnessUsage 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.}}
yearn
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) giernan, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
- It would yearn your heart to see it.
- It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
