tearfully
With streaming eyes
Tearfully means while crying or with tears in one's eyes: She tearfully said goodbye to her childhood home.
The word often appears in descriptions of emotional moments—grief, joy, or relief: He tearfully accepted the award.
Convulsive crying aloud
- cryingEmotional tear release
- bawlingCrying noisily and hard
- whimperingCrying weakly, softly
- snivelingTearful, pitiful complaining
wailing · blubbering · keening · moaning · lamenting · howling · misty-eyed · choked up
Defeated by sheer volume
- movedChanged location or felt
- touchedAffected emotionally or physically
- heartfeltDeeply and sincerely meant
- poignantEvoking keen emotion
stirring · sentimental · vulnerable · choked · expressive · bittersweet · tender · wistful
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
- funeralService honoring the dead
- eulogyTribute for the dead
condolences · memorial · graveside · farewell · remembrance · widow · orphan · wake
Extremely pleased, intensely glad
- reunionGathering after separation
- gratitudeThankfulness for kindness received
- relievedNo longer anxious
- weddingMarriage rite and feast
birth · graduation · homecoming · victory · breakthrough · reconciliation · proud · elated
sobbing
Convulsive crying aloud
- cryingEmotional tear release
- bawlingCrying noisily and hard
- whimperingCrying weakly, softly
sniveling · wailing · blubbering · keening · moaning · lamenting · howling · misty-eyed · choked up · breaking down
overwhelmed
Defeated by sheer volume
- movedChanged location or felt
- touchedAffected emotionally or physically
- heartfeltDeeply and sincerely meant
poignant · stirring · sentimental · vulnerable · choked · expressive · bittersweet · tender · wistful · yearning
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
- funeralService honoring the dead
eulogy · condolences · memorial · graveside · farewell · remembrance · widow · orphan · wake · burial
overjoyed
Extremely pleased, intensely glad
- reunionGathering after separation
- gratitudeThankfulness for kindness received
- relievedNo longer anxious
wedding · birth · graduation · homecoming · victory · breakthrough · reconciliation · proud · elated
tearfullyjoyfully
With great pleasure
happily · cheerfully · laughingly · gleefully · ecstatically
tearfullystoically
With unemotional endurance
impassively · unemotionally · dry-eyed · composedly · calmly
- tearful reunionWeepy meeting after absence
- tearful goodbyeEmotional final parting