weepily

In crying fashion

In a weeping or tearful manner, with visible emotion or on the verge of tears: She weepily recounted the story of her grandmother's final days.

The word often carries a slightly dismissive tone, suggesting excessive or melodramatic emotion.

tearful

sobbing

Convulsive crying aloud

blubbering · bawling · wailing · teary · misty-eyed · dewy-eyed · red-eyed · sniffling · choking up · trembling

sentimental

maudlin

Excessively tearful sentiment

  • sappyExcessively sentimental
  • schmaltzyExcessively and insincerely sentimental
  • gushyExcessively emotional

overemotional · melodramatic · nostalgic · wistful · lovesick · tender · touching · heartfelt · emotional · affected

mournful

grief-stricken

Overwhelmed by profound loss

keening · plaintive · anguished · heartbroken · despairing · woeful · elegiac · funereal · inconsolable · devastated

Opposites
emotional expression manner

weepilystoically

With unemotional endurance

stolidly · impassively · unemotionally · dry-eyed · composedly

emotional valence in delivery

weepilycheerfully

In a glad manner

joyfully · happily · laughingly · merrily · gleefully

Phrases
Family

weeping, weepiest, weepiness

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G