Adjective: yearful
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more yearful |
| Superlative | most yearful |
Sample Sentences
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[…] but into the quiet haunts of the yearful ones ye cannot as yet hope for admission. [1907, The Nation, volume 1, page 929:]
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[…] an encampment of these Sioux, com posed of nearly two hundred persons, of both sexes, and of different ages, from the yearful father of the chief, to his small grand-child, a pappoose of tender years. [1910, Harry H. Green, The Recognition of Jesse Badleigh, page 106:]
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Pity the yearful tree, green branches torn, fronting to-morrow's winds because it must. [1972, Outposts, page 29:]
Adjectives inflected like yearful
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From year + -ful. Compare Dutch bejaard (“having many years, elderly, aged”). See: Dutch Adjectives '
bejaard'.