Tearful

Definitions: Tearful

Tearful

Adjective

1. Filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful entreaties".

2. Showing sorrow.

Date "tearful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Tearful

Synonyms: dolorous (adj), dolourous (adj), lachrymose (adj), weeping (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: tearless (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Lamentation	Adjective: lamenting; Verb: in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes; sorrowing, sorrowful; (unhappy); mournful, tearful; lachrymose; plaintive, plaintful; querulous, querimonious; in the melting mood; threnetic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tearful

English words defined with "tearful": Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel ♦ climax, culminate ♦ laurel ♦ melancholia ♦ snivel, sniveling, Stan Laurel ♦ tearfully ♦ whine. (references)

Domain	Usage
Clever	The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Tearful Celebration (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Tearful Happiness (Przez Lzy Do Szczescia) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		It is no wonder, then, that some people feel tearful, anxious, angry, or depressed at some point during their chemotherapy. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Tearful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.55% of the time. "Tearful" is used about 204 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.55%	199	21,651
Noun (proper)	2.45%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	204	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "tearful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lotues (lachrymose), i përlotur (lachrymose, moist, tear stained, watery), i mbytur në lot. (various references)

Arabic		‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, weary), ‏مدمع, ‏دامع (blear, lachrymatory, moist, watering, watery, weeping), ‏باكي (weeping). (various references)

Bulgarian		разплакан (blubbered), печален (dark, disconsolate, distressful, distressing, dolorous, drear, grave, grievous, heavyhearted, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, rueful, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful, tristful, woeful), плачлив (fretful, weepy, whining). (various references)

Chinese		眼泪汪汪, 沱 (to branch), 漣 (ripple), �" (overflow, rainwater). (various references)

Czech		uslzený (tearstained), uplakaný (tearstained, weepy), smutný (dismal, distressing, doleful, elegiac, gloomy, miserable, plaintive, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, upset, woeful, woesome), slzavý (lachrymal). (various references)

Finnish		kyyneleinen. (various references)

French		larmoyant, en larmes, éploré. (various references)

German		tränenreich (lachrymose, tearfully), weinerlich (fretful, lachrymose, mournful, mournfully, weepy, whining, whiny), tränenvoll. (various references)

Greek		πολύδακρυσ (lachrymose), δακρυσμένοσ (lachrymose, tear stained). (various references)

Hebrew		מזיל �"מעות (lachrymose), �"ומע� י, �"ומע (lachrymose). (various references)

Hungarian		könnyes (dewy, lachrymose, slobber, watery). (various references)

Indonesian		cengeng (pule, whine). (various references)

Italian		piangente (crying, weeping), lacrimoso (lachrymose, watery), lacrimevole, in lacrime. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		黯然たる (doleful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あ�"ぜ�"たる (doleful). (various references)

Manx		jeiragh (lachrymal, mournful). (various references)

Pig Latin		earfultay.(various references)

Portuguese		triste (bleak, blue, broken hearted, cheerless, dark, desolate, dire, discontent, dismal, dismantle, dolichocephalic, dreary, dumpling, dun, gaunt, gloomily, Gray, grey, joylessly, long, lugubriousness, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, misty, Moody, moppet, mouse, painful, painfully, penstock, pitfall, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sore, sorrowful, sorry, tristful, unhappy, upset), lamentável (ill-favored, infelicity, lamentable, melancholy, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, regretful, regrettable, sad, sorrowful, unfortunate, wretched), lacrimoso (lacing, watery, weeping), choroso (mournful, weeping), cheio de lágrimas. (various references)

Russian		печальный (comfortless, deplorable, disappointing, disconsolate, dolorous, heavyhearted, heavy-hearted, lachrymose, lamentable, languishing, lugubrious, miserable, mournful, pensive, sad, sorrowful, sorry, tristful, wailful), плачущий (crying, lachrymose, wailing). (various references)

Scottish		silteach (running as an ulcer). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tužan (disappointing, dismal, distressed, distressful, distressing, doleful, dumpish, elegiac, funereal, grievous, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, mirthless, plaintive, sad, unhappy, wailful, woeful, woesome), uplakan (tear stained, tearstained), suzan (lachrymose), pun suza, plačan (crying, weeping, weepy), žalostan (deplorable, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, regretful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, tristful, wailful, weepy). (various references)

Spanish		lloroso (lachrymose, weeping). (various references)

Swedish		gråtmild (lachrymose, maudlin, weepy). (various references)

Turkish		gözü yaşlı (bathed in tears, in tears, weeping), dertli (afflicted, afflicted with, aggrieved, distressed, grief-stricken, heartbroken, plaintive, rueful, suffering, under a cloud, woebegone, woeful), acıklı (deplorable, depressing, distressful, distressing, dolorous, hurtful, lugubrious, pathetic, piteous, rueful, sad, sorrowful, touching, weepy, woeful), ağlayan (crying, lachrymose, wailing, weeping, weepy), ağlamaklı (plaintive, snivelling, weepy), üzgün (afflicted, aggrieved, bleak, careworn, chagrined, crestfallen, dejected, downcast, downhearted, glum, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, pained, regretful, rueful, sad, sick at heart, sorrowful, sorry, stricken, troubled, unhappy, upset, worried). (various references)

Ukranian		слізливий (lachrymose, soupy, weepy, wet), повний сліз (lachrymose). (various references)

Vietnamese		khóc lóc bu�"n, bu�"n phát khóc, bu�"n bã (dumpish, dumpy, glum, mopish, plaintive, rueful, sadly, sepulchral), đẫm lệ. (various references)

Welsh		wylofus (doleful, wailing). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	flebili, flebilis, lacrimans, lacrimosus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tearful": tearfully, tearfulness, tearfulnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tearful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beakful, cearful, tearfull, trayful, trayfuls. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tearful" (pronounced ti"rful)
5	-i" r f u l	cheerful, fearful.
4	-r f u l	careful, prayerful.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: refutal.
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: artful, earful, falter, ferula, fluter.
	-2 letters: after, alert, alter, artel, farle, fault, feral, fetal, feuar, flare, flute, later, lutea, ratel, taler, ultra, urate, ureal.
	-3 letters: alef, earl, fare, farl, fart, fate, feal, fear, feat, felt, feta, flat, flea, flue, frae, frat, fret, fuel, furl, late, leaf, lear, left, lure, lute, raft, rale, rate, real, reft, rule, tael, tale, tare, teal, tear, tela, tref, true, tufa, tule, turf, urea.
	-4 letters: aft, ale, alt, are, arf, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, eft, elf, era, eta, far, fat, fer, fet, feu, flu, fur, lar, lat, lea, let, leu, rat, ref, ret, rue, rut, tae, tar, tau, tea, tel, uta.
	-5 letters: ae, al, ar, at, ef, el, er, et, fa, la, re, ta, ut.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: aflutter, faultier, filature, flaunter, grateful, refutals.
	+2 letters: defaulter, filatures, flaunters, flauntier, formulate, fulgurate, masterful, refutable, refutably, tearfully, ultrafine, ultraleft, ultrasafe.
	+3 letters: artfulness, defaulters, fluoridate, fluorinate, formulated, formulates, fraudulent, fulgurated, fulgurates, gratefully, platterful, quatrefoil, ultrafiche, ungrateful.
	+4 letters: beautifuler, carefullest, centrifugal, faultfinder, fearfullest, featureless, fluoridated, fluoridates, fluorinated, fluorinates, fortunately, frugalities, gratefuller, irrefutable, irrefutably, lactiferous, masterfully, platterfuls, plattersful, prefectural, quatrefoils, reformulate, tearfulness, thankfuller, ultrafiches, unfaltering.
	+5 letters: artfulnesses, centrifugals, characterful, faultfinders, figuratively, fluidextract, flutterboard, fraudulently, gracefullest, gratefullest, gratefulness, interfaculty, interfluvial, preformulate, quarterfinal, reformulated, reformulates, salutiferous, transfusable, transfusible, ultracareful, ultraleftism, ultraleftist, ultrarefined, unflattering, unformulated, ungratefully, unprofitable, wrathfulness.
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