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Definition of lachrymose adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

lachrymose

adjective
 
/ˈlækrɪməʊs/
 
/ˈlækrɪməʊs/
(formal)
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  1. tending to cry easily; making you cry synonym tearful
    • She was pink-eyed and lachrymose.
    • The film is a lachrymose melodrama.
    Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘like tears; liable to exude in drops’): from Latin lacrimosus, from lacrima ‘tear’.
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