yawning
adj1
That yawns or yawn.
- yawning commuters
2
Figuratively Wide open.
- a yawning chasm; the shark's yawning jaws
- 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:
2 more examples
- 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:
- 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:
- Derived terms
- yawningly, yawningness