Lachrymose

Word: Lachrymose

Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition: Tearful, mournful, or close to tears; note it is used to describe tone, speech, atmosphere, or disposition, but not the inciting event.

Synonyms: Weepy

Antonyms: Joyful

Helpful hints to remember: Lacrimal glands are the glands that produce tears.

Sentences:

• Octavian hated working at the amphitheater on lachrymose tragedy night, as all the weeping women would annoy him to no end.
• The father must have had a heart of coal in order to walk away from his lachrymose children like that.
• Peter decided that the lachrymose atmosphere of the active cemetery was the perfect place to write a horror novel.