TEARFUL: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'teeufûl
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| Matching Terms: | | tearfully, tearfulness
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- [adj] showing sorrow
- [adj] filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful entreaties"
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| | Synonyms: | | dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, liquid, misty-eyed, sniffling(a), sniffly, snuffling, snuffly, sorrowful, swimming, teary, teary-eyed, watery, watery-eyed, weeping, weepy |
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| | Antonyms: | | dry-eyed, tearless | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Tear"ful\, a.
Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful
eyes. -- {Tear"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Tear"ful*ness}, n.
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