lachrymose

Meaning

Adjective

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

Origin

Borrowed from Latin lacrimōsus, from lacrima + -osus, from Old Latin dacrima, from Proto-Indo-European *dakru-, cognate with English tear.

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