Word Meanings - TEARFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TEARFUL)

• Mournful
• Sad
• melancholy
• tearful
• doleful
• depressing
• wailing
• lugubrious

Related words: (words related to TEARFUL)

• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• WAILMENT
  Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.
• WAIL
  To choose; to select. "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.
• WAILFUL
  Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.
• MELANCHOLY
  1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak. 2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia. 3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
• WAILINGLY
  In a wailing manner.
• DEPRESSOMOTOR
  Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. -- n.
• WAILERESS
  A woman who wails.
• DEPRESSOR
  A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part. Depressor nerve , a nerve which lowers the activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the heart. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
• DEPRESSION
  The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. (more info) 1. The act of depressing. 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness
• TEARFUL
  Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n.
• DEPRESSANT
  An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.
• DOLEFUL
  Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. With screwed face and doleful whine. South. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. Milton. Syn. -- Piteous; rueful; sorrowful; woeful; melancholy; sad gloomy; dismal;
• DEPRESS
  To reduce in a lower degree. To depress the pole , to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator. Syn. -- To sink; lower; abase; cast down; deject; humble; degrade; dispirit; discourage. (more
• DEPRESSIVE
  Able or tending to depress or cast down. -- De*press"ive*ness, n.
• DEPRESSED
  Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies. (more info) 1. Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled. Concave on the upper side;
• WAILER
  One who wails or laments.
• DEPRESSINGLY
  In a depressing manner.
• LUGUBRIOUS
  Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. --
• BEWAIL
  To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
• BEWAILING
  Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
• BEWAILABLE
  Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
• WIDOW-WAIL
  A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.
• BEWAILMENT
  The act of bewailing.