Usually means: Feeling or inducing a desire to yawn.
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  1. yawny: Merriam-Webster
  2. yawny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. yawny: Collins English Dictionary
  4. yawny: Wiktionary
  5. yawny: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. yawny: Dictionary.com
  7. yawny: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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  1. Yawny: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (yawny)

▸ adjective:  Prone to yawning.
▸ adjective:  Sounding like a yawn.
▸ adjective:  Boring, uninteresting, causing yawns.

Similar:
yawnsome, groany, mumbly, nappy, moany, somnolescent, yawnful, weepy, yawnable, stretchy, more...

Opposite:
energetic, alert, lively, awake, animated

Types:
contagious, stress, boredom, tiredness, hunger, more...

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Similar:
yawnsome, groany, mumbly, nappy, moany, somnolescent, yawnful, weepy, yawnable, stretchy, more...

Opposite:
energetic, alert, lively, awake, animated

Types:
contagious, stress, boredom, tiredness, hunger, more...



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