\LAK-ruh-mohs\
adjective
1. given to shedding tears readily; tearful.
2. suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
Quotes
I suppose Catherine fulfilled her project, for the next sentence took up another subject: she waxed lachrymose. "How little did I dream that Hindley would ever make me cry so!" she wrote.
-- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, 1847
Origin
Lachrymose derives from the Latin word meaning "tear," lacrima. The adjectival suffix -ous means "full of; abounding in; given to; like." Lachrymose entered English in the mid-1600s.
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