lachrymose
Given to crying
Lachrymose means tearful or given to weeping: a lachrymose farewell, the lachrymose heroine of Victorian novels.
The word is literary and slightly formal, often used with a touch of irony to describe excessive sentimentality: The film's lachrymose ending left audiences reaching for tissues.
Things that provoke tears may also be called lachrymose: lachrymose ballads.
Filled with grief
- mournfulShowing or feeling grief
- dolefulExpressing deep sorrow
- lugubriousExaggeratedly mournful in manner
- plaintiveSounding sad, sorrowful
woeful · somber · elegiac · dolorous · forlorn · dismal · gloomy · morose
Shedding tears audibly
- sobbingConvulsive crying aloud
- teary-eyedEyes welling up
- blubberingCrying noisily and uncontrollably
- snivelingTearful, pitiful complaining
wailing · misty-eyed · dewy-eyed · bawling · whimpering · lamenting · blear · keening
Excessively tearful sentiment
- weepyInclined to cry
- sappyExcessively sentimental
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
bathetic · saccharine · schmaltzy · nostalgic · wistful · bittersweet · poignant · heartrending
Deprived by death
- mourningPeriod following loss
- grievingFeeling sorrow after loss
- heartbrokenOverwhelmed with grief
- anguishedSeverely emotionally distressed
distraught · inconsolable · bereft · grief-stricken · brokenhearted · devastated · stricken · crushed
sorrowful
Filled with grief
- mournfulShowing or feeling grief
- dolefulExpressing deep sorrow
- lugubriousExaggeratedly mournful in manner
plaintive · woeful · somber · elegiac · dolorous · forlorn · dismal · gloomy · morose · sepulchral
weeping
Shedding tears audibly
- sobbingConvulsive crying aloud
- teary-eyedEyes welling up
- blubberingCrying noisily and uncontrollably
sniveling · wailing · misty-eyed · dewy-eyed · bawling · whimpering · lamenting · blear · keening · howling
maudlin
Excessively tearful sentiment
- weepyInclined to cry
- sappyExcessively sentimental
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
melodramatic · bathetic · saccharine · schmaltzy · nostalgic · wistful · bittersweet · poignant · heartrending · touching
bereaved
Deprived by death
- mourningPeriod following loss
- grievingFeeling sorrow after loss
- heartbrokenOverwhelmed with grief
anguished · distraught · inconsolable · bereft · grief-stricken · brokenhearted · devastated · stricken · crushed · afflicted
- sadnesssad, unhappy, grief, sorrowful, heartbroken
lachrymosestoic
Uncomplaining endurer of hardship
unemotional · impassive · composed · dry-eyed · phlegmatic