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In some senses, yawning is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
The action of the verb yawn.
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.
adj
That yawns or yawn.
yawning commuters
Wide open.
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.