He devoted a whole poem to the blueness of his victim's eyes, which the two policemen read out loud to one another through hysterical, tearful laughter.
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Tearful
//ˈtɪɹfʊl//
Synonyms for "tearful" (54 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
16 entriesTranslations
79 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- دَامِع adj (accompanied by tears)
Armenian
1 entries- արցունքոտ adj (accompanied by tears)
Aromanian
2 entries- lãcrimos adj (accompanied by tears)
- lãcãrmos adj (accompanied by tears)
Bulgarian
2 entries- насълзен adj (accompanied by tears)
- тъжен adj (sorrowful)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 淚汪汪 /泪汪汪 adj (accompanied by tears)
- 淚眼汪汪 /泪眼汪汪 adj (accompanied by tears)
Czech
2 entries- uplakaný adj (accompanied by tears)
- uslzený adj (accompanied by tears)
Danish
1 entries- tårefyld adj (accompanied by tears)
Dutch
2 entries- betraand adj (accompanied by tears)
- vochtig adj (accompanied by tears)
Finnish
3 entries- itkun partaalla adj (accompanied by tears)
- kyyneleinen adj (accompanied by tears)
- kyyneleinen adj (sorrowful)
French
4 entries- au bord des larmes adj (accompanied by tears)
- larmoyant adj (accompanied by tears)
- larmoyant adj (sorrowful)
- éploré adj (sorrowful)
German
1 entries- tränenreich adj (accompanied by tears)
Greek
4 entries- έτοιμος να βάλει τα κλάματα adj (accompanied by tears)
- δακρυσμένος adj (accompanied by tears)
- δακρύβρεχτος adj (sorrowful)
- κλαμένος adj (accompanied by tears)
Hindi
3 entries- अश्रुपूर्ण adj (accompanied by tears)
- रुआँसा adj (sorrowful)
- रुआँसी adj (sorrowful)
Hungarian
2 entries- könnyes adj (accompanied by tears)
- szomorú adj (sorrowful)
Italian
4 entries- bagnato adj (accompanied by tears)
- lacrimoso adj (accompanied by tears)
- piangente adj (accompanied by tears)
- umido adj (accompanied by tears)
Japanese
1 entries- 涙ぐんだ adj (accompanied by tears)
Karakhanid
1 entries- يَشْلِغْ adj (accompanied by tears)
Latvian
2 entries- raudulīgs adj (accompanied by tears)
- raudulīgs adj (sorrowful)
Māori
4 entries- matawai adj (accompanied by tears)
- matawaia adj (accompanied by tears)
- toriwai adj (accompanied by tears)
- tōwāwahi adj (accompanied by tears)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- forgrått adj (accompanied by tears)
- gråtkvalt adj (sorrowful)
- tåredryppende adj (sorrowful)
- tårefylt adj (accompanied by tears)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- gråtfull adj (accompanied by tears)
- tåredrypande adj (sorrowful)
- tårefull adj (accompanied by tears)
- tårevåt adj (accompanied by tears)
Old Uyghur
1 entries- yʾšlyγ (yašlïɣ) adj (accompanied by tears)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یاشلو adj (accompanied by tears)
Persian
1 entries- تر adj (accompanied by tears)
Polish
4 entries- płaczliwy adj (accompanied by tears)
- rozpłakany adj (accompanied by tears)
- rzewny adj (sorrowful)
- stroskany adj (sorrowful)
Portuguese
1 entries- lacrimejante adj (accompanied by tears)
Romanian
1 entries- înlăcrimat adj (accompanied by tears)
Russian
4 entries- в слеза́х adj (accompanied by tears)
- глаза́ на мо́кром ме́сте adj (accompanied by tears)
- запла́канный adj (accompanied by tears)
- печа́льный adj (sorrowful)
Spanish
3 entries- lacrimoso adj (accompanied by tears)
- lagrimoso adj (accompanied by tears)
- lloroso adj (accompanied by tears)
Swedish
2 entries- gråtmild adj (accompanied by tears)
- tårfylld adj (accompanied by tears)
Turkish
4 entries- acıklı adj (sorrowful)
- ağlamaklı adj (sorrowful)
- gözyaşlı adj (accompanied by tears)
- gözü yaşlı adj (sorrowful)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by the visitation of God." What could the world do without juries?
Source: tatoeba (2092456)
A great fire was lighted in the courtyard in which she was to be burnt, and the King stood above at the window and looked on with tearful eyes, because he still loved her so much.
Source: tatoeba (4846319)
"Touched by his tearful plea, / we asked his race, what tidings, good or ill, / he brings, for hope, perchance, may cheer a captive still."
Source: tatoeba (6805195)
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