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7 definitions found for lachrymose

WordNet (r) 3.0
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 ; mournfullachrymosely adverblachrymosity noun

Oxford English Reference Dictionary
lachrymose
adj. formal given to weeping; tearful.
Derivatives:
lachrymosely adv.
Etymology: L lacrimosus f. lacrima tear

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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