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Tearful definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TE'ARFUL, a. [tear and full.] Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as tearful eyes.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

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 Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 crying or inclined to cry. 2 causing or accompanied with tears; sad (a tearful event). Derivatives: tearfully adv. tearfulness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tearful Tear"ful, a. Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If someone is tearful, their face or voice shows signs that they have been crying or that they want to cry. She became very tearful when pressed to talk about it. ADJ • tearfully Gwendolen smiled tearfully. ADV: usu ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Weeping, shedding tears.

Moby Thesaurus

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