Lachrymose (adjective)

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Definition of lachrymose

Definition: Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

Related words: lachrymosely (adverb); lachrymosity (noun).

Synonyms: tearful; emotional; weepy; weeping; crying; teary; sobbing; sentimental; maudlin; mournful.

Famous uses of lachrymose in a sentence

“Sometimes I go to her Facebook page. It’s silly, I know. Pathetic. And every time I do, I promise myself next time I’ll be stronger. I don’t even know what impels me. Why are the most painful memories also the sweetest; why does the sweetness always draw us back no matter how long the pain might have kept us away beforehand? I don’t know, any more than I know why sometimes I have to sit in the dark and listen to Terumasa Hino playing “Alone, Alone and Alone.” I just do. I can’t seem to help periodically disinterring that little box of memories, no matter how lachrymose its contents. I try to stop. But sometimes there’s just what you can do, and what you can’t.” — Barry Eisler, Graveyard of Memories

“February was sobbing and blustering its lachrymose way into March, when she received a letter from the Dean.” — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“Of course, there were other sorts of literature — theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical — but they were just dry wanks. Real literature was about psychological, emotional and social truth as demonstrated by the actions and reflections of its protagonists; the novel was about character developed over time.” — Julian Barnes

“At work you will be lachrymose and distracted. You will shuffle through the hall like a legume with feet. People will notice.” — Lorrie Moore

“Macalvie, that was an incredibly lachrymose question.” — Martha Grimes, Rainbow’s End

“Perhaps there will be news from home waiting for us there. Lord, how I should love to know how things are going.’ ‘Oh so should I,’ cried Stephen. ‘Though it is not yet possible that there should be word of Diana and our daughter. Sometimes when I think of that little soul I grow quite lachrymose.’ ‘A few months of roaring and bawling and swaddling-clothes will soon cure you of that. You have to be a woman to bear babies.’ ‘So I have always understood,’ said Stephen.” — Patrick O’Brian, The Thirteen-Gun Salute

“I follow the silence home
Lightning entangled with lightning and the night
That immaculate traveler and stranger
a lachrymose intangible hive
remembering everything we disavow
keeping it alive for us” — Richard Cronshey

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