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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lachrymose
adj : showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, tearful, weeping]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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