Meaning of yearnful | Babel Free

Definitions

Filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.

Examples

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

“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.”

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

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