Yearnful

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

Usage notes

• This term was once widely and disapprovingly attributed to the poet John Keats.
  • 1900, Rupert Hughes, Contemporary American Composers‎^[3]:

It abounded in emotion, and was--to use the impossible word Keats coined--"yearnful."

• • **, 1902, Leon Mead‎^{[Word-coinage]}, page 19:

Men of genius have been guilty of some queer word-coinages. Keats coined the impossible word yearnful; but this was not his gravest offense.

• • 1903, Rupert Hughes, The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1‎^[4]:

This is the last of these letters to which one could apply so fitly the barbarous word "yearnful," once coined by Keats.