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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
lachrymose
    adj 1: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous,
           lachrymose, tearful, weeping]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lachrymose \Lach"ry*mose`\, a. [L. lacrymosus, better
   lacrimosus, fr. lacrima, lacruma (also badly spelt lachryma)
   a tear, for older dacrima, akin to E. tear. See Tear the
   secretion.]
   Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears;
   suffused with tears; tearful.
   [1913 Webster]

         You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. --Lamb.
   -- Lach"ry*mose`ly, adv.
   [1913 Webster]
Thesaurus Results for Lachrymose:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
blubbering, crying, dissolved in tears, excretory, in tears, lachrymal, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, ready to cry, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous, sialagogic, sniveling, sobbing, spermatic, tearful, teary, watering, watery, weeping, weepy, whimpering, with eyes suffused
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