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adj. Filled with or accompanied by tears: tearful eyes; a tearful farewell.

adj. So piteous as to excite tears: a tearful melodrama.

adj. accompanied by tears.

adj. sorrowful.

adj. Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears.

Full of tears; shedding tears; weeping; mourning.

Giving occasion for tears; mournful; melancholy.

adj. filled with or marked by tears

adj. showing sorrow

""Do you call a tearful interview with the mother of an accused killer unbiased?""

liquid    weepy    snuffly    teary-eyed    teary    sniffly    watery-eyed    swimming    misty-eyed    snuffling   

tearless   

weeping    watery    teary    mournful    lachrymose    lachrymous    liquid    maudlin    wet    moist   

cheerful    fearful   

sorrowful    heartfelt    impassioned    piteous    plaintive    wistful    wordless    doleful    tremulous    downcast