Lachrymose

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lachrymose \Lach"ry*mose`\, a. [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; tearful.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. --Lamb.
     -- {Lach"ry*mose`ly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lachrymose
       adj : showing sorrow [syn: {dolorous}, {dolourous}, {tearful}, {weeping}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "lachrymose":
     blubbering, crying, dissolved in tears, excretory, in tears,
     lachrymal, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous,
     ready to cry, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous, secretional,
     secretive, secretory, seminal, serous, sialagogic, sniveling,
     sobbing, spermatic, tearful, teary, watering, watery, weeping,
     weepy, whimpering, with eyes suffused