Results for lachrymose

Definitions of lachrymose:

part of speech: adverb

LACHRYMOSELY.

part of speech: adjective

Generating or shedding tears; tearful; sad; doleful.

part of speech: adjective

Tearful; sad. Also, lacrimose.

Usage examples for lachrymose:

• I am as limp, lachrymose and lamentable, a young woman as you would find between the three seas. "Nancy A Novel", Rhoda Broughton

• The deep religious feeling of that scene, the grouping, the use of sunset lights and shadows, the melody of the chimes, the stricken look in the faces of the women and children, the sweet gravity of the Vicar- instinct with the nobleness of a sorrow not yet become corrosive and lachrymose as is the tendency of settled grief- and, over all, the sense of blighted happiness and an uncertain future, made up a dramatic as well as a pictorial effect of impressive poetic significance. "Shadows of the Stage", William Winter

• He uttered his love- plaints aloud and in a lachrymose tone, " Oh! "Weird Tales. Vol. I", E. T. A. Hoffmann