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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. filled with or marked by tears;
- Example: "tearful eyes"
- Example: "tearful entreaties"

2. showing sorrow;
[syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tearful \Tear"ful\, a. Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tearful adj 1: filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful entreaties" [ant: dry-eyed, tearless] 2: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

37 Moby Thesaurus words for "tearful": aggrieved, anguished, blubbering, careworn, crying, dissolved in tears, doleful, dolorous, dumb with grief, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, in grief, in tears, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, ready to cry, rueful, sniveling, sobbing, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, teary, weeping, weepy, whimpering, with eyes suffused, woeful