tearful
pronunciation
How to pronounce tearful in British English:
UK [ˈtɪəfl]
How to pronounce tearful in American English:
US [ˈtɪrfl]
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- Adjective:
- filled with or marked by tears
- showing sorrow
Word Origin
- tearful (adj.)
- 1580s, from tear (n.1) + -ful. Related: Tearfully; tearfulness.
Example
- 1. Former colleagues recall he slipped out almost unnoticed , without tearful farewells or parting shots to colleagues .
- 2. Some are tearful when recounting the kindness with which they were treated .
- 3. Modern researchers agree enthusiastically , categorising love as a form of madness and echoing what psychologists have been telling tearful patients for years .
- 4. The image of the tearful wife , hiding behind sunglasses , next to her husband while he unloaded his sins to the world , was " intensely embarrassing " and some women are deciding they do not have to follow that path , she said .
- 5. Under my grandmother 's tearful gaze , my father and my uncles hadn 't yet managed to squander their entire inheritance-not all of the apartments had been sold .