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Answer for the clue "Tearful ", 10 letters:
lachrymose

Word definitions for lachrymose in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "tear-like," from Latin lacrimosus "tearful, sorrowful, weeping," also "causing tears, lamentable," from lacrima "tear," a dialect-altered borrowing of Greek dakryma "tear," from dakryein "to shed tears," from dakry "tear," from PIE *dakru- (see ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lachrymose \Lach"ry*mose`\, [L. lacrymosus, better lacrimosus, fr. lacrima, lacruma (also badly spelt lachryma) a tear, for older dacrima, akin to E. tear. See Tear the secretion.] Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. showing sorrow [syn: dolorous , dolourous , tearful , weeping ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a lachrymose drama

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.

Usage examples of lachrymose.

If any of the three of them had come, it might have put the kibosh on this lachrymose morning.

The Brown of coffins was as lachrymose and gently morbid as the most bereaved widow could wish to encounter.

This lachrymose lie is a lamentable lollapalooza launched by the lunatic left.