Adjective: yearny
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | yearnier |
| Superlative | yearniest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more yearny |
| Superlative | most yearny |
Sample Sentences
-
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:]
-
"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:]
Adjectives inflected like yearny
snubby,
snithy,
snorty,
snoopy,
sainty,
screwy,
scowly,
schizy,
smacky,
slimsy,
slanty,
slaggy,
songly,
soothy,
shysty,
shiply,
skeezy,
beastly,
yearny,
whip-creamy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From yearn + -y.