Crossword-Solution: YAWN 4 letters, 151 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Yawn	v. i.	To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate.
Yawn	v. i.	To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything.
Yawn	v. i.	To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
Yawn	v. i.	To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings.
Yawn	n.	An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open.
Yawn	n.	The act of opening wide, or of gaping.
Yawn	n.	A chasm, mouth, or passageway.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
YAWN	anagram	AWNY, WANY

We have 151 clues for the answer “YAWN”

Clue	Answers
"Contagious" reflex action	1 answer
"Ho-hum" sound	1 answer
(I'm so-o-o bored)	1 answer
(I'm so-o-o tired!)	1 answer
(This is like watching paint dry!)	1 answer
Act sleepy	1 answer
Act that's "contagious"	1 answer
Action by the bored	1 answer
Action that may be "contagious"	1 answer
Action that's supposedly contagious	1 answer
Bedtime hint	1 answer
Bedtime indicator	1 answer
Betray sleepiness	1 answer
Bored person	1 answer
Bored response	1 answer
Contagious reflex	1 answer
Demonstrate boredom	1 answer
Demonstrate boredom, perhaps	1 answer
Demonstrate tedium	1 answer
Demonstration of disinterest	1 answer
Display boredom, in a way	1 answer
Display drowsiness	1 answer
Display of disinterest	1 answer
Drowsy response	1 answer
Ennui reaction	1 answer
Evince ennui	1 answer
Exhibit boredom	1 answer
Exhibit ennui	1 answer
Express ennui	1 answer
Express fatigue openly	1 answer
Gape open	1 answer
Hint to a boring speaker	1 answer
Hint to a unexciting speaker	1 answer
Hint to an unexciting speaker	1 answer
Ho-hum response	1 answer
Impatient gesture	1 answer
Impossibility if you keep your mouth shut	1 answer
Indicate boredom	1 answer
Involuntary opening	1 answer
It becomes rude if you don't use your hand	1 answer
It may be suppressed at a meeting	1 answer
It may have to be suppressed if you don't want a reprimand from your boss	1 answer
It's contagious	1 answer
Jaw-dropping action?	1 answer
Jaw-dropping opening?	1 answer
Look bored	1 answer
Look bored, in a way	1 answer
Low interest indicator	1 answer
Naptime harbinger	1 answer
Nothing exciting	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RTEAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with YAWN (5)

They were awfully nice little night-lights, and one cannot help wishing that they could have kept awake to see Peter; but Wendy’s light blinked and gave such a yawn that the other two yawned also, and before they could close their mouths all the three went out.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Bathsheba, a small yawn upon her mouth, took the pen, and with off-hand serenity directed the missive to Boldwood.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Thus was he worming his way behind the guard when the latter straightened up, opened his cavernous mouth in a wide yawn, and stretched his arms above his head.

The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

His physiognomy would have sufficiently indicated that he was a shrewd and capable fellow, and in truth he had often sat up all night over a bristling bundle of accounts, and heard the cock crow without a yawn.

The American Henry James 1994

Not much,” he assented, sleepily, in his hoarse voice, with just enough deference, no more, and barely suppressing a yawn.

The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad 1995

Quotes with YAWN (3)

Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

Veronica Roth Divergent

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

Lemony Snicket The Grim Grotto

There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?""Evil's afoot.""Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.

Jim Butcher White Night

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 174 times in crossword archives (1966–2025).