yawning
/ˈjɔːnɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Her vivacity appeared as graceful as it was buoyant; her gay spirit seemed the musical overflowings of youth and happiness; her eye and cheek brightened together; and her sweet glad laugh was as catching as yawning."
- "yawning commuters"
- "a yawning chasm; the shark's yawning jaws"
- "That experience really taught me something. That deep down inside, I am broken, and that I'm using work to plaster over some yawning gap within myself."
- "The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what."
- "But always and ever there is a yawning chasm below[.]"
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
yawningly
yawningness