adj. tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying
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adj. Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
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adj. showing sorrow
Word Usage
"He was not only kind-hearted, but very tender-hearted, so that his lips would quiver on occasions and his eyes fill with tears, -- what doctors improperly call a lachrymose nature; but in regard to a question of principle or public necessity he was as firm as Plymouth Rock."