Synonyms for lachrymose

Grammar : Adj

Spell : lak-ruh-mohs

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlæk rəˌmoʊs

Définition of lachrymose

Origin : 1660s, "tear-like," from Latin lacrimosus "tearful, sorrowful, weeping," also "causing tears, lamentable," from lacrima "tear," a dialect-altered borrowing of Greek dakryma "tear," from dakryein "to shed tears," from dakry "tear," from PIE *dakru-/*draku- (see tear (n.)). Meaning "given to tears, tearful" is first attested 1727; meaning "of a mournful character" is from 1822. The -d- to -l- alteration in Latin is the so-called "Sabine -L-," cf. Latin olere "smell," from root of odor, and Ulixes, the Latin form of Greek Odysseus. The Medieval Latin practice of writing -ch- for -c- before Latin -r- also altered anchor, pulchritude, sepulchre. The -y- is pedantic, from belief in a Greek origin. Middle English had lacrymable "tearful" (mid-15c.).

adj crying

Example sentences :

But women must beware of sham emotion and lachrymose sentimentality.
Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley

The gills are notched, rather distant, pallid, then cinnamon; lachrymose.
Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard

Then it had cried out once, and so remained ever lachrymose and in agony.
Extract from : « The Fifth Queen Crowned » by Ford Madox Ford

His tone had never been so lachrymose, nor his face so full of woe.
Extract from : « The Bertrams » by Anthony Trollope

The too lachrymose Madonna in terra-cotta, 256, already ushers in the decadence.
Extract from : « The Story of Paris » by Thomas Okey

For Servius, who is timid and lachrymose, everything has gone astray.
Extract from : « The Life of Cicero » by Anthony Trollope

Besides, the expression of her face was lachrymose in the extreme.
Extract from : « The Girls of Central High in Camp » by Gertrude W. Morrison

"You're too late," stated his countryman in lachrymose tones.
Extract from : « The Glory of The Coming » by Irvin S. Cobb

She had, I fancy, expected to find her in a lachrymose state.
Extract from : « Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 696 » by Various

He is the only one who has attempted the lachrymose, the sentimental novel.
Extract from : « The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century » by Leo Wiener

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