Teary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Filled or wet with tears: teary eyes.
  • adj. Of or resembling tears.
  • adj. Causing weeping: a teary movie; a teary goodbye.
  • adj. Inclined to weep: He becomes teary when he reminisces.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.
  • adj. Of eyes, filled with tears.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Wet with tears; tearful.
  • adj. Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Full of tears; wet with tears; tearful.
  • Falling in drops like tears.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. with eyes full of tears
  • Equivalent
    tearful   
    Antonym
    dry-eyed   
    Form
    teary-eyed   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tearful   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alfieri    Cleary    Erie    Kiri    Leary    beery    bleary    cheery    deary    dreary   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    single-season    pale-colored    rheumy    ultra-fast    loup    clost    hersel    pain-filled    bloodshot    tear-stained