Tearful

Word TEARFUL
Character 7
Hyphenation tear ful
Pronunciations /ˈtɪə.fʊl/

Definitions and meanings of "Tearful"

What do we mean by tearful?

Filled with or accompanied by tears. adjective

So piteous as to excite tears. adjective

Full of tears; shedding tears; weeping; mourning.

Giving occasion for tears; mournful; melancholy.

Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears. adjective

Accompanied by tears. adjective

Sorrowful. adjective

Filled with or marked by tears adjective

Showing sorrow adjective

Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry.

Sorrowful.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Tearful

The word "tearful" in example sentences

When she heard his words, she wept and sobbed, and the merchant said to her, O my lady, I observe that, every time I mention Baghdad, thine eyes are tearful: is there any one there whom thou lovest? ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Do you call a tearful interview with the mother of an accused killer unbiased?" ❋ Brown, Sandra, 1948- (1985)

She could only press her lips in tearful silence to the one and the other of her mother's cheeks alternately. ❋ Unknown (1892)

What more can be said as we gather in tearful reverence around his bier? ❋ Unknown (1865)

A source tells E! that Britney was "tearful" - in a good way! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Watching the Supreme Leader calling the tearful Basiji to arms, it struck me that the worst thing Bush/Cheney and the neocons did was to trivialize what is evil about our enemies as they devalued what is good about us. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"My grandmother was a prayin 'woman," recalled a tearful Robert Lavala, pastor of a bikers 'church in Las Vegas. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He was very tearful, which is not like him - he is usually very optimistic.

He recalled a tearful discussion with his mother in a car after dropping off his brother, who was being sent to Iraq, at a military base. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Instead, the existence of an RCMP email, previously overlooked (or so we're told by a "tearful" federal government lawyer) may delay that concluding phase. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The topper was yesterday in the "tearful" plea for forgiveness, he listed the people he had hurt and the mistress was at the top of the list, then Jenny, then "those" boys! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead, the existence of an RCMP email, previously overlooked or so we're told by a "tearful" federal government lawyer may delay that concluding phase. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Later that morning, after a "tearful" meeting of the party leadership, the ex-chancellor gave up the fight. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even when she became "tearful", she just couldn't resist implying that Barack didn't know what he was doing: "Some of us know what we will do day one, and other's haven't thought it through." ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)

Powell described the conversation to a close friend as "tearful" and "prayerful." ❋ Unknown (2008)

It seems to me that after more than ten years of keeping them at odds with each other, the writers could have given Alan and Jason a tearful, meaningful scene together before Alan passed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I felt kind of tearful but nothing anywhere near the surface. ❋ Sheepdip (2002)

I used to take advantage of this to use my Manual at that hour, because by that I secured a deeper intensity of repentance, and I have often succeeded in inducing a kind of tearful condition by those means, which I knew perfectly well to be artificial, but which yet seemed to comply with the rules of the process. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

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