Synonyms for teary
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Tearful — of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry
tearful, teary-eyed, weepy, watery, lachrymose, crysome, maudlin dated, cryey rare, sobful dated, lachrymate formal rare, larmoyant rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.
No wonder Ryan was teary; he missed his parents.
- adj. 2
Of eyes, filled with tears.
Wade looked into his girlfriend's teary eyes.
Related words
- Word family
- teary-eyed
Example sentences
- watery It was watery soup spiced with pepper and rancid oil.
- tearful Ziri, Rima, and their kids had a tearful family reunion.
- weepy She cried all morning and was still weepy at dinnertime.
By length
- 3 letters
- wet1
- 5 letters
- moist1, weepy2, cryey
- 6 letters
- watery3, sobful
- 7 letters
- tearful2, maudlin2, crysome
- 9 letters
- larmoyant
- 10 letters
- lachrymose3, lachrymate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (weepy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- larmoyant
- Italiano
- lacrimoso
- Español
- lacrimoso
- Deutsch
- tränenreich