yawning en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈjɔːnɪŋ/
- (US) audio
Meanings
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That yawns or yawn.
yawning commuters
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(figuratively) Wide open.
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.
2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847: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.
2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 122:But always and ever there is a yawning chasm below[.]
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 1:a yawning chasm; the shark's yawning jaws
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most yawning | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more yawning | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (6)
grc ἀχανής (wide open) · it sbadiglio (that yawns or yawn) · sk zívajúci (that yawns or yawn) · ru зева́ющий (that yawns or yawn) · ru зия́ющий (wide open) · it enorme (wide open)