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lachrymose

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈlæk.ɹɪ.moʊs/
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adj

Meaning 1

Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: lachrymate, miserable, unhappy, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disgruntled, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heavy-hearted, heartsore, heartsick, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, Plutonian, Plutonic, querulous, ruthful, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrowful, sorrow-ridden, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched, cryey, crysome, larmoyant, maudlin, moist, sobful, tearful, teary, watery, weepy

Antonyms: none provided

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adjective satellite

Meaning 2

showing sorrow

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, tearful, weeping

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lachrymōsus, lacrimōsus, from lachryma, lacrima (“tear”) + -osus (“-ful”), from Old Latin dacrima, from Proto-Indo-European *dakru-, cognate with English tear.

Across languages

Translations

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: بكّاء — tearful; causing tears
  • Bulgarian: сълзлив (sǎlzliv) — tearful; causing tears
  • Bulgarian: плачещ (plačešt) — tearful; causing tears
  • Chinese Mandarin: 催泪的 (cuīlèide) — tearful; causing tears
  • Dutch: aangrijpend — tearful; causing tears
  • Dutch: treurig — tearful; causing tears
  • Dutch: intriest — tearful; causing tears
  • Finnish: itkuinen — tearful; causing tears
  • Finnish: kyynelehtivä — tearful; causing tears
  • Finnish: itkettävä — tearful; causing tears
  • French: lacrymal — tearful; causing tears
  • Friulian: lagrimôs — tearful; causing tears
  • German: ergreifend — tearful; causing tears
  • German: traurig — tearful; causing tears
  • German: nahe gehend — tearful; causing tears
  • Italian: lacrimoso — tearful; causing tears
  • Māori: matawai — tearful; causing tears
  • Māori: matawaia — tearful; causing tears
  • Polish: łzawy — tearful; causing tears
  • Polish: płaczliwy — tearful; causing tears
  • Portuguese: lacrimoso — tearful; causing tears
  • Romanian: lăcrimos — tearful; causing tears
  • Russian: плакси́вый (plaksívyj) — tearful; causing tears
  • Russian: слезли́вый (slezlívyj) — tearful; causing tears
  • Spanish: lacrimoso — tearful; causing tears
  • Spanish: lacrimógeno — tearful; causing tears
  • Swedish: tårfylld — tearful; causing tears
  • Swedish: gråtmild — tearful; causing tears
  • Swedish: sorglig — tearful; causing tears
  • Turkish: ağlamaklı — tearful; causing tears
  • Turkish: ağlatan — tearful; causing tears
  • Welsh: dagreuol — tearful; causing tears
  • Welsh: wylofus — tearful; causing tears