English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From tear + -ful.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tearful (comparative more tearful, superlative most tearful)
- Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry.
- Aaron was a little tearful until Laura came to reassure him.
- Sorrowful.
- Synonym: lachrymose
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
accompanied by tears
- Arabic: دَامِع (dāmiʕ)
- Aromanian: lãcãrmos, lãcrimos
- Bulgarian: насълзен (bg) (nasǎlzen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 淚汪汪／泪汪汪 (zh) (lèiwāngwāng), 淚眼汪汪／泪眼汪汪 (lèiyǎn wāngwāng)
- Czech: uslzený, uplakaný
- Danish: tårefyld
- Dutch: betraand (nl), vochtig (nl)
- Finnish: itkun partaalla, kyyneleinen
- French: au bord des larmes (fr), larmoyant (fr)
- German: tränenreich (de)
- Greek: δακρυσμένος (el) (dakrysménos), έτοιμος να βάλει τα κλάματα (étoimos na válei ta klámata), κλαμένος (el) (klaménos)
- Hungarian: könnyes (hu)
- Italian: bagnato (it), lacrimoso, piangente (it), umido (it)
- Japanese: 涙ぐんだ (なみだぐんだ, namida gunda)
- Karakhanid: يَشْلِغْ (yašlïɣ)
- Latvian: raudulīgs
- Maori: matawai, matawaia, toriwai, tōwāwahi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forgrått, tårefylt, tårevåt
- Nynorsk: gråtfull, tårefull, tårevåt
- Old Uyghur: yʾšlyγ (yašlïɣ)
- Ottoman Turkish: یاشلو (yaşlı)
- Persian: تر (fa) (tar)
- Polish: zapłakany (pl), rozpłakany, płaczliwy (pl), łzawy (pl)
- Portuguese: lacrimejante
- Romanian: înlăcrimat (ro)
- Russian: глаза́ на мо́кром ме́сте (ru) (glazá na mókrom méste) (figuratively), по́лный слёз (pólnyj sljoz), в слеза́х (ru) (v slezáx), запла́канный (ru) (zaplákannyj)
- Spanish: lloroso (es), lacrimoso, lagrimoso (es)
- Swedish: gråtmild (sv), tårfylld (sv)
- Turkish: gözyaşlı,, yaşlı (tr)
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