Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Filled with or accompanied by tears.
- adjective So piteous as to excite tears.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of tears; shedding tears; weeping; mourning.
- Giving occasion for tears; mournful; melancholy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
accompanied bytears . - adjective
sorrowful .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective filled with or marked by tears
- adjective showing sorrow
Etymologies
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Examples
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When she heard his words, she wept and sobbed, and the merchant said to her, O my lady, I observe that, every time I mention Baghdad, thine eyes are tearful: is there any one there whom thou lovest?
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"Do you call a tearful interview with the mother of an accused killer unbiased?"
Sweet Anger Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1985
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She could only press her lips in tearful silence to the one and the other of her mother's cheeks alternately.
The Wide, Wide World 1892
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What more can be said as we gather in tearful reverence around his bier?
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A source tells E! that Britney was "tearful" - in a good way!
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A source tells E! that Britney was "tearful" - in a good way!
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Watching the Supreme Leader calling the tearful Basiji to arms, it struck me that the worst thing Bush/Cheney and the neocons did was to trivialize what is evil about our enemies as they devalued what is good about us.
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"My grandmother was a prayin 'woman," recalled a tearful Robert Lavala, pastor of a bikers 'church in Las Vegas.
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He was very tearful, which is not like him - he is usually very optimistic.
unknown title 2009
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He recalled a tearful discussion with his mother in a car after dropping off his brother, who was being sent to Iraq, at a military base.
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