lach·ry·mose

also lac·ri·mose (lăk′rə-mōs′)

adj.

1. Weeping or inclined to weep; tearful.

2. Causing or tending to cause tears.

[Latin lacrimōsus, from lacrima, tear; see lachrymal.]

lach′ry·mos′i·ty, lac′ri·mos′i·ty (-mŏs′ĭ-tē) n.

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lachrymose

(ˈlækrɪˌməʊs; -ˌməʊz)

adj

1. given to weeping; tearful

2. mournful; sad

[C17: from Latin lacrimōsus, from lacrima a tear]

ˈlachryˌmosely adv

lachrymosity n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

lach•ry•mose

(ˈlæk rəˌmoʊs)

adj.

1. suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.

2. given to shedding tears readily; tearful.

[1655–65; < Latin lacrimōsus; see lachrymal, -ose¹]

lach′ry•mose`ly, adv.

lach`ry•mos′i•ty (-ˈmɒs ɪ ti) n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

lachrymose - showing sorrow

dolorous, dolourous, weeping, tearful

sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13

lachrymose

adjective tearful, crying, weeping, woeful, sad, mournful, lugubrious, weepy (informal), dolorous the tears of lachrymose mourners

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

lachrymose

adjective

Filled with or shedding tears:

tearful, teary, weeping, weepy.

Idiom: in tears.

Translations

larmoyant

lacrymal

lacrimoso

aangrijpendintriesttreurig

lachrymose

[ˈlækrɪməʊs] ADJ → lacrimoso, lloroso

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

lachrymose

adj (liter) person → weinerlich; story, film etc → rührselig, ergreifend

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

lachrymose

a. lacrimoso-a, lagrimoso-a.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

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TWO Blighted Beings, haggard, lachrymose, and detested, met on a blasted heath in the light of a struggling moon.

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Master Nicholas, the village barber, however, used to say that neither of them came up to the Knight of Phoebus, and that if there was any that could compare with him it was Don Galaor, the brother of Amadis of Gaul, because he had a spirit that was equal to every occasion, and was no finikin knight, nor lachrymose like his brother, while in the matter of valour he was not a whit behind him.

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He was by turns devout and obscene, merry and lachrymose. He grew remarkably drunk, and then he began to recite poetry, his own and Milton's, his own and Shelley's, his own and Kit Marlowe's.

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I suppose Catherine fulfilled her project, for the next sentence took up another subject: she waxed lachrymose.

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The priest comes along dandling his charge as if it were a lachrymose infant he was endeavouring to put into a good humour.

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Nioche, at first, for answer, simply looked at him in lachrymose silence.

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"God bless you," the beggar chanted in a lachrymose voice.

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The best fun was with Madame Joubert: Miss Wilson was a poor sickly thing, lachrymose and low-spirited, not worth the trouble of vanquishing, in short; and Mrs.

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Come and be locked up!" He slowly recovered an upright position, with the assistance of his hands, backed by the solid resisting power of the bureau; and lapsed into lachrymose soliloquy.

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"Yes, I am Wickens's boy," said the witness, partly fierce, partly lachrymose, "and I say I seen him, and if anyone sez I didn't see him, he's a lie."

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Ein' feste Burg was built as a tower of voices, and folk songs in the minor key were sung until the choir waxed (as happened at home, upstairs in the Oystercatcher) lachrymose.

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Instead, all the politicos and pundits in Cyprus were busy Tweeting as they competed with one another in waxing lachrymose about the blaze at the Notre Dame Cathedral.

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