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Definition of lachrymose in English: lachrymoseadjective ˈlakrɪməʊzˈlakrɪməʊs 1Tearful or given to weeping. 〈正式，或诗/文〉流泪的；爱哭的 she was pink-eyed and lachrymose 她哭红了眼睛。 Synonyms tearful, weeping, crying, teary, with tears in one's eyes, close to tears, on the verge of tears, sobbing, snivelling, whimpering emotional, sad, mournful, woeful, unhappy, depressed, gloomy, melancholy, low-spirited, despondent, downcast, low, glum, morose, sorrowful, joyless, disconsolate, doleful, maudlin, miserable, forlorn, grief-stricken, lugubrious informal weepy, blubbering, down, down in the mouth, blue literary dolorous rare larmoyant - 1.1 Inducing tears; sad.
催人泪下的；悲哀的 a lachrymose children's classic 催人泪下的儿童名著。 Example sentencesExamples - He now almost disappears from the story, the rest of which relates, with lachrymose sentiment and many frissons of horror (including a hint of necrophilia), the misfortunes and eventual joys of young Melvil and Monimia.
- ‘Surely,’ he wrote, ‘it is time to break with the lachrymose theory of pre-Revolutionary woe, and to adopt a view more in accord with historic truth.’
Synonyms tragic, sad, poignant, heart-rending, tear-jerking, moving, melancholy, depressing, plaintive mawkish, sentimental British informal soppy
Derivativesadverb I also noticed that as you were busy lachrymosely explaining how he had no choice but to be a bum who collects bottles for recycling, you found it much easier to be outraged than to in any way acknowledge my point. Example sentencesExamples - A bar in which one may engage in such pleasant diversions as drinking beer or wine, bantering lightly or commiserating lachrymosely with friends is only a bar.
- You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite.
- Its wild swings between the lurid and the lachrymosely sentimental are much uglier, however.
- Where else can you hear a show lachrymosely titled ‘The Saddest Music in the World’?
noun Transcending audience expectations of cosily heartwarming fare, Christian Carion's approach is accessible, unashamedly old-fashioned even, but it's impressive and moving precisely because it never resorts to easy lachrymosity or self-righteous breast-beating. Example sentencesExamples - Fortunately, there is some sensitive writing to balance this kind of lachrymosity.
- And so The Wild Boy is a sad novel, tugging the heartstrings with some of the rhapsodic lachrymosity that felled Little Nell.
- Tales of horror and lachrymosity abound.
- It has nothing to do with my state of mind at the time or any tendency to lachrymosity.
OriginMid 17th century (in the sense 'like tears; liable to exude in drops'): from Latin lacrimosus, from lacrima 'tear'. Definition of lachrymose in US English: lachrymoseadjective 1Tearful or given to weeping. 〈正式，或诗/文〉流泪的；爱哭的 she was pink-eyed and lachrymose 她哭红了眼睛。 Synonyms tearful, weeping, crying, teary, with tears in one's eyes, close to tears, on the verge of tears, sobbing, snivelling, whimpering - 1.1 Inducing tears; sad.
催人泪下的；悲哀的 a lachrymose children's classic 催人泪下的儿童名著。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘Surely,’ he wrote, ‘it is time to break with the lachrymose theory of pre-Revolutionary woe, and to adopt a view more in accord with historic truth.’
- He now almost disappears from the story, the rest of which relates, with lachrymose sentiment and many frissons of horror (including a hint of necrophilia), the misfortunes and eventual joys of young Melvil and Monimia.
Synonyms tragic, sad, poignant, heart-rending, tear-jerking, moving, melancholy, depressing, plaintive
OriginMid 17th century (in the sense ‘like tears; liable to exude in drops’): from Latin lacrimosus, from lacrima ‘tear’. |