Definition for Yawning:

• An involuntary stretching of the body and limbs with a deep inspiration, occurring in those who are overcome with sleepiness. In its nature a form of tonic spasm analogous to tetanus.

Synonyms for Yawning:

• adj.

  •deep (adjective)
  • subterranean,
  • downreaching,
  • fathomless.
  •open (adjective)
  • unbarred,
  • unstopped,
  • unplugged,
  • Unclosed,
  • unimpeded,
  • unbolted,
  • uncovered,
  • patent,
  • bare,
  • uncapped,
  • ajar,
  • Admitting,
  • accessible,
  • unlocked,
  • unobstructed,
  • manifest,
  • exposed.

• adv

  •amazed (adverb)
  • agape.

• n.

  •
  • abysmal.
  •opening (noun)
  • gap,
  • entrance,
  • portal,
  • door,
  • inlet,
  • hatch,
  • opening,
  • mouth,
  • chasm,
  • embouchure,
  • pore,
  • gate,
  • orifice,
  • aperture.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • abyssal.
  •languor
  • lassitude.
  •Other relevant words:
  • interval,
  • benthal,
  • Barranca,
  • roomy,
  • gulch,
  • incompleteness,
  • heavy with sleep,
  • ravine,
  • frenzy,
  • disruption,
  • Interjacence,
  • Plunging,
  • narcotized,
  • heavy-lidded,
  • tiring,
  • tired,
  • gulf,
  • aberration,
  • perforate,
  • drowsy,
  • stuporous,
  • languid,
  • gully,
  • heaviness,
  • strait,
  • Doziness,
  • yawns,
  • distortion,
  • huge,
  • sleepiness,
  • gape,
  • Hiation,
  • sluggish,
  • groggy,
  • parenthesis,
  • insanity,
  • listless,
  • abysm,
  • anaesthetised,
  • vast,
  • dehiscence,
  • Sleepful,
  • revealed,
  • dull,
  • Patefaction,
  • bottomless,
  • napping,
  • languor,
  • barranco,
  • Goggling,
  • narcoleptic,
  • spacious,
  • dehiscent,
  • weariness,
  • unsounded,
  • aberrance,
  • unfathomed,
  • opened,
  • pandiculation,
  • abyss,
  • diversion,
  • tiredness,
  • stretching,
  • obvious,
  • doped,
  • torture,
  • fatigue,
  • Yawned,
  • boring,
  • dyspnoea,
  • unsealed,
  • cataleptic,
  • lethargic,
  • Abra,
  • abnormality,
  • anesthetized,
  • sweat,
  • Apertness,
  • notch,
  • deformation,
  • defile,
  • gorge,
  • torpid,
  • benthopelagic,
  • Bilging,
  • exhaustion,
  • drugged,
  • extensive,
  • sedated,
  • perforated,
  • weary,
  • unfathomable,
  • soporific,
  • pass,
  • inattentive,
  • hollow,
  • chasmic,
  • stretchy,
  • oscitance,
  • Yawing,
  • lazy,
  • lethargy,
  • somnolence,
  • dreamy,
  • deviation,
  • drowsiness,
  • Narcose,
  • deviance,
  • clove,
  • Fatigation,
  • oscitant,
  • rupture,
  • Ringent,
  • openmouthed,
  • careless,
  • Oscitation,
  • yawn,
  • crack,
  • Gazing,
  • broad,
  • narcous,
  • plumbless,
  • comatose,
  • heavy,
  • bathycolpian,
  • canon,
  • furrow,
  • absence,
  • slack-jawed,
  • crevasse,
  • Somnolency,
  • soundless,
  • Respiring,
  • Frith,
  • breathing,
  • gawking,
  • oscitancy,
  • mistake,
  • spall.

Paraphrases for Yawning:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    gaping.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    immense, overwhelming, whopping, vast, massive, daunting.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    exploding.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    enormous, great, gigantic.

Antonyms for Yawning:

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    attentive, shut, closed.