Usually means: Tearful or given to weeping.
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  1. lachrymose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lachrymose: Merriam-Webster
  3. lachrymose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lachrymose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lachrymose: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lachrymose: Vocabulary.com
  7. lachrymose: Wordnik
  8. lachrymose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lachrymose: Wiktionary
  10. lachrymose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lachrymose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lachrymose: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lachrymose, lachrymose: Dictionary.com
  14. lachrymose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Lachrymose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lachrymose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lachrymose: Rhymezone
  18. Lachrymose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lachrymose: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lachrymose: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. lachrymose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lachrymose: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lachrymose: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lachrymose: A Word A Day
  2. lachrymose: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lachrymose)

▸ adjective:  Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.

Similar:
dolorous, sorrowful, dolourous, tearful, weeping, lachrymous, lachrymatory, lacrymose, lachrymosal, lachrymal, more...

Opposite:
sanguine, jocund, jovial, mirthful

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Similar:
dolorous, sorrowful, dolourous, tearful, weeping, lachrymous, lachrymatory, lacrymose, lachrymosal, lachrymal, more...

Opposite:
sanguine, jocund, jovial, mirthful

Colors:
    midnight blue,     slate gray,     charcoal,     indigo,     deep purple, more...



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