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Tearful
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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a lachrymose drama
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. showing sorrow [syn: dolorous , dolourous , tearful , weeping ]
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; ...
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.