lachrymose

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
lachrymose
    adj 1: showing sorrow [syn: {dolorous}, {dolourous},
           {lachrymose}, {tearful}, {weeping}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   [1913 Webster]

         You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. --Lamb.
   -- {Lach"ry*mose`ly}, adv.
   [1913 Webster]
from 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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