Synonyms for lachrymose
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Tearful — tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying
tearful, miserable, unhappy, moist, melancholy, watery, teary, melancholic, sorrowful, weepy, saturnine, atrabilious, dolorous, dolourous, gloomy, dismal, dejected, mournful, woeful, despondent, plaintive, joyless
Definitions
- adj. 1
Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
Related words
- Other spellings
- lachrymosal lachrymous lacrimose lacrymose
Example sentences
- moist I baked a cake, and it came out fluffy and moist.
- watery It was watery soup spiced with pepper and rancid oil.
- tearful Ziri, Rima, and their kids had a tearful family reunion.
- teary I get teary-eyed every time I watch this movie.
By length
- 5 letters
- moist1, teary2, weepy2
- 6 letters
- gloomy2, dismal2, watery3, woeful2
- 7 letters
- unhappy3, tearful2, joyless
- 8 letters
- dejected3, mournful2, dolorous
- 9 letters
- miserable4, sorrowful3, plaintive2, saturnine, dolourous
- 10 letters
- melancholy4, despondent3
- 11 letters
- melancholic4, atrabilious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (teary2 = 2 syllables).