lachrymose
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lacrimōsus, from lacrima (“tear”) + -osus (“-ful”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Latin dacrima, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *dakru-, cognate with English tear.
Pronunciation
Adjective
lachrymose (comparative more lachrymose, superlative most lachrymose)
- Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
- 1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, page 69:
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
tearful; causing tears
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