yearnful

comparative more yearnful · superlative most yearnful

1. Filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.

   So now lend me thy yearnful tunes to utter my sorrow.

   1570, Richard Edwards, “Damon and Pithias”, in A select collection of old English plays, Volume 4, page 43

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   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.

   1886, Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

   I am yearnful to know who was the unhappy person the wicked general threatened.

   1919, Albert Payson Terhune, “The Strike”, in O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919

   Synonyms: earnful