tearful

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tearful \Tear"ful\, a.
   Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful
   eyes. -- {Tear"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Tear"ful*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]
from 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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