Tearful

3 definitions found

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

  Tearful \Tear"ful\, a.
     Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful
     eyes. -- {Tear"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Tear"ful*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  tearful
       adj 1: filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful
              entreaties" [ant: {tearless}]
       2: showing sorrow [syn: {dolorous}, {dolourous}, {lachrymose},
          {weeping}]

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

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "tearful":
     aggrieved, anguished, blubbering, careworn, crying,
     dissolved in tears, doleful, dolorous, dumb with grief,
     grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, in grief, in tears,
     lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lamentable, lugubrious,
     mournful, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, ready to cry,
     rueful, sniveling, sobbing, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, teary,
     weeping, weepy, whimpering, with eyes suffused, woeful