yearnful

adjective

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

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

Where it comes from

From Middle English yernful, ȝeornful, from Old English ġearnfull, ġeornful (“desirous, eager, zealous, diligent, anxious”), equivalent to yearn + -ful.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry yearnful (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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