yawny

English

Etymology

From yawn +‎ -y.

Adjective

yawny (comparative yawnier, superlative yawniest)

1. Prone to yawning.
   • 1848, Orson Squire Fowler, A Home for All:

     Waking up in the small room, you feel dull, stupid, gloomy, oppressed, yawny, lax, and all unstrung in body and mind...

2. Sounding like a yawn.
   • 2011, Craig Groeschel, Love, Sex, and Happily Ever After, page 13:

     I drew the deepest, yawniest breath I could fake and swiftly lifted my right arm.

3. Boring, uninteresting, causing yawns.