TEARFUL - 10 definitions found
tearful adj 1: filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful entreaties" [ant: dry-eyed, tearless] 2: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping] tearful faulter refutal Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) tearful adjective Date: circa 1586 1. flowing with or accompanied by tears <tearful entreaties> 2. causing tears ; teary <a tearful eulogy> • tearfully adverb • tearfulness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary tearful ˈtɪəful adj. 1 crying or inclined to cry. 2 causing or accompanied with tears; sad (a tearful event). øøtearfully adv. tearfulness n. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Tearful \Tear"ful\, a. Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms tearful a. Weeping, shedding tears. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) tearful ˈtɪəful adj. weeping, crying, in tears, sobbing, whimpering, dewy-eyed, blubbering, snivelling, lachrymose, Colloq weepy: She was tearful as she told him they could not meet again. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 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 |
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