Meaning of LACHRYMOSE
| Pronunciation: | | 'lakru`mows
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| | Definition: | | [adj] showing sorrow |
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| | Synonyms: | | dolorous, dolourous, sorrowful, tearful, weeping |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. --Lamb.
-- {Lach"ry*mose`ly}, adv.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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