LACHRYMOSE - 7 definitions found
lachrymose adj 1: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) lachrymose adjective Etymology: Latin lacrimosus, from lacrima Date: circa 1727 1. given to tears or weeping ; tearful 2. tending to cause tears ; mournful • lachrymosely adverb • lachrymosity noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary lachrymose Someone who is lachrymose cries very easily and very often. (LITERARY) ...the tears of lachrymose mourners. ADJ English Explanatory Dictionary lachrymose ˈlækrɪməus adj. formal given to weeping; tearful. øølachrymosely adv. [L lacrimosus f. lacrima tear] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. --Lamb. -- Lach"ry*mose`ly, adv. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 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 |
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