About The Word Lachrymose
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Lachrymose
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What's The Definition Of Lachrymose?
[adj] showing sorrow
Synonyms | Synonyms for Lachrymose: dolorous | dolourous | sorrowful | tearful | weeping Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Lachrymose In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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