tearful
adj/ˈtɪə(ɹ)fʊl/UK/ˈtɪɹfʊl/US
Etymology
Definitions
Accompanied by tears
Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry.
- Aaron got a little tearful until Laura came to reassure him.
- The week that was yet to elapse, she spent in wandering through her uncle's favourite walks in hours of tearful vigil, beside his tomb, and in collecting together every trifle on which he had set a value.
Sorrowful.
- Receiving the news of Joseph Beam's death two days after Christmas was a piercing blow that sent me into a tearful and contemplative stupor from which I have not yet emerged.
The neighborhood
- synonymcryey
- synonymcrysome
- synonymlachrymate
- synonymlachrymose
- synonymlarmoyant
- synonymmaudlin
- synonymmoist
- synonymsobful
- synonymtearful
- synonymteary
- synonymwatery
- synonymweepy
- antonymdry-eyed
- antonymtearless
- antonymunlachrymose
- antonymuntearful
- neighboremotional
- neighbormelting
- neighborsad
- neighborcrying
- neighbordewy-eyed
- neighbormisty
- neighborteary-eyed
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at tearful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at tearful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at tearful
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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