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lachrymose

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Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
21
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈlæk.ɹɪ.moʊs/

Definition of lachrymose

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
    “It is true that Limeans were given to interpolating trivial songs into the most exquisite comedies and some lachrymose effects into the austerest music; but at least they never submitted to the boredom of a misplaced veneration.”

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lachrymōsus, lacrimōsus, from lachryma, lacrima (“tear”) + -osus (“-ful”), from Old Latin dacrima, from Proto-Indo-European *dakru-, cognate with English tear.

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