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lachrymose

adj
/ˈlæk.ɹɪ.moʊs/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lachrymōsus, lacrimōsus, from lachryma, lacrima (“tear”) + -osus (“-ful”), from Old Latin dacrima, from Proto-Indo-European *dakru-, cognate with English tear.

  1. derived from *dakru-✻
  2. derived from dacrima
  3. learned borrowing from lachrymōsus,lacrimōsus

Definitions

  1. Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.

    • It is true that Limeans were given to interpolating trivial songs into the most exquisite comedies and some lachrymose effects into the austerest music; but at least they never submitted to the boredom of a misplaced veneration.

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