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Teary

Definition: Teary

Teary

Adjective

1. With eyes full of tears.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "teary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1918. (references)

Synonyms: Teary

Synonyms: teary-eyed (adj), watery-eyed (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Teary

Specialty definitions using "teary": teary ground. (references)

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Expression: Teary

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "teary": teary-eyed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Teary

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

eyes teary

6

teary

2
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Modern Translations: Teary

Language Translations for "teary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

winerlich. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earytay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

слезоточивый (lachrymatory). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

dagreuol. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Teary

Misspellings

"Teary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ataraxy, eary, etar, feary, itenary, Keary, sheary, Tabarly, taery, tagry, tairy, tamry, tanry, taory, tarvy, tary, teady, teaky, tealy, teany, teare, tearie, tearier, teark, tearn, tearo, tearra, teart, teasy, teecy, teeky, teery, tejar, temari, tenary, terai, terays, tery, teur, Tewarie, Tienari, Tinari, tipry, trear, treary, Treorky, Tueart, veary, yeary. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Teary"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "teary" (pronounced ti"rē)
3-i" r ēbeery, bleary, cheery, deary, dreary, eerie, Leary, leery, theory, weary, wiry.

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Anagrams: Teary

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-r-t-y"

-1 letter: aery, arty, eyra, rate, tare, tear, tray, trey, tyer, tyre, yare, year.

-2 letters: are, art, ate, aye, ear, eat, era, eta, rat, ray, ret, rya, rye, tae, tar, tea, try, tye, yar, yea, yet.

-3 letters: ae, ar, at, ay, er, et, re, ta, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-r-t-y"
 

+1 letter: artery, azerty, baryte, betray, earthy, eatery, elytra, estray, gyrate, hearty, lyrate, realty, stayer, treaty, watery, yarest, yatter.

 

+2 letters: agentry, alertly, apteryx, barytes, battery, betrays, breathy, cattery, cautery, dietary, earthly, estrays, estuary, gargety, grayest, greatly, gyrated, gyrates, hydrate, irately, lathery, lyrated, mastery, mattery, nectary, partyer, peartly, peytral, pteryla, rackety, reality, retiary, sectary, stayers, strayed, strayer, streaky, streamy, tannery, tearily, ternary, therapy, thready, tracery, tragedy, trawley, treacly, typebar, variety, wastery, wreathy, yachter, yatters.

 

+3 letters: acerbity, acrylate, actressy, adultery, aleatory, ancestry, apyretic, ardently, aroynted, asperity, attorney, barretry, barytone, basketry, bestiary, betrayal, betrayed, betrayer, butyrate, calypter, category, catenary, centaury, chattery, clattery, cometary, cytaster, earthily, easterly, enactory, entreaty, entryway, errantly, errantry, erythema, estrayed, eurybath, eyewater, fatherly, feathery, feracity, flattery, forestay, gadgetry, hatchery, heartily, heathery, hydrated, hydrates, hysteria, interlay, latterly, leathery, lethargy, literacy, literary, lyrately, martyred, masterly, maturely, maumetry, monetary, ornately, outweary, overstay, partyers, pedantry, peytrals, plastery, psaltery, pterygia, pterylae, pyruvate, rateably, rectally, regality, retrally, routeway, staggery, sternway, strategy, strayers, styraxes, sybarite, tapestry, taxpayer, teaberry, tearaway, tenantry, terabyte, teriyaki, tertiary, textuary, thearchy, trachyte, travesty, trawleys, treasury, tutelary, typebars, tyramine, varletry, veracity, vestiary, waterily, waterway, yachters, yahrzeit, yattered, yawmeter, yeastier, ytterbia, zealotry.

 

+4 letters: acrylates, adversity, aliteracy, allometry, allostery, alterably, altimetry, ambrotype, ancientry, anhydrite, apteryxes, archetype, arcuately, artillery, artlessly, arytenoid, astrocyte, asymmetry, athrocyte, attorneys, austerely, austerity, barometry, baronetcy, barytones, betrayals, betrayers, betraying, breathily, budgetary, butyrates, bystander, cabinetry, calypters, carpentry, catalyzer, centenary, centrally, certainly, certainty, champerty, cordately, crematory, cytasters, daydreamt, daytrader, dehydrate, depravity, deviatory, diathermy, dietarily, drysalter, dynamiter, earnestly, electuary, enterally, entryways, erythemas, estraying, eternally, eucaryote, eukaryote, eurybaths, expiatory, extrality, eyestrain, eyewaters, ferryboat, feudatory, forestays, hairstyle, hemelytra, heptarchy, hysterias, insectary, interlays, interplay, irreality, itinerary, karyotype, kerygmata, laterally, linearity, literally, macrocyte, manometry, marquetry, martyries, martyrize, maternity, mediatory, momentary, monastery, multiyear, mythmaker, neutrally, operantly, outprayed, overhasty, overstays, oysterman, pageantry, painterly, pantrymen, parquetry, paternity, paymaster, peasantry, pederasty, pentarchy, planetary, polywater, portrayed, portrayer, precatory, predacity, predatory, prefatory, privately, pyruvates, quarterly, radiately, ratepayer, refutably, rehydrate, relatedly, reliantly, repayment, reputably, roseately, routeways, royalties, seaworthy, secretary, sedentary, sergeanty, seriately, serjeanty, severalty, spymaster, steelyard, sternways, strangely, sybarites, taxidermy, taxpayers, teacherly, tearaways, tearfully, temporary, terabytes, teriyakis, termitary, ternately, tetralogy, tetrarchy, theocracy, thermally, tolerably, tracheary, trachytes, treachery, tyramines, tyrannies, tyrannise, tyrannize, unearthly, unreality, ventrally, verdantly, veritably, vestryman, waterways, weatherly, yahrzeits, yattering, yawmeters, yesterday, ytterbias.

 

+5 letters: aberrantly, abortively, abstrusely, accurately, acidimetry, adherently, advertency, afferently, alimentary, ambrotypes, amendatory, anemometry, anhydrites, anteriorly, antipyrine, apothecary, apparently, archetypal, archetypes, arterially, arytenoids, assertedly, astrocytes, astrometry, asymmetric, athrocytes, audiometry, babysitter, baptistery, bathymetry, bystanders, caryatides, catalyzers, centrality, charactery, clearstory, commentary, corybantes, creatively, creativity, creaturely, creditably, crystalize, curatively, cybernated, daytraders, dedicatory, defamatory, dehydrated, dehydrates, dehydrator, depilatory, depositary, derogatory, drysalters, drysaltery, dynamiters, elementary, epistolary, erotically, erythremia, escalatory, ethereally, eucaryotes, eukaryotes, eukaryotic, eurybathic, excitatory, excusatory, expiratory, externally, eyestrains, ferryboats, flycatcher, flyswatter, fraternity, galleryite, generality, gesturally, gratefully, gravimetry, gyniatries, hairstyles, heliolatry, hereditary, hermatypic, heterogamy, honeyeater, hypaethral, hyperacute, hyperalert, hypertonia, hysterical, illiteracy, immaturely, inertially, integrally, interlayer, intermarry, internally, interparty, interplays, inveteracy, itinerancy, karyotyped, karyotypes, keratotomy, kerygmatic, lectionary, levorotary, liberality, literality, literarily, literately, macrocytes, macrophyte, malapertly, martyrized, martyrizes, materially, maternally, metallurgy, methylator, metrically, moderately, monetarily, multilayer, mythmakers, neuropathy, neutrality, obdurately, orientally, overstayed, oxygenator, panegyrist, parentally, paternally, paymasters, personalty, phylactery, pigmentary, pityriases, pleasantry, polywaters, portrayers, pregnantly, prenatally, prepayment, procaryote, prokaryote, pyrolysate, pyrolyzate, quaternary, quaternity, radiometry, ratepayers, reactively, reactivity, refractory, regularity, regulatory, rehydrated, rehydrates, relatively, relativity, relevantly, reluctancy, repayments, repeatedly, resonantly, revelatory, rotatively, saprophyte, satyriases, secularity, segmentary, separately, shrievalty, slatternly, soothsayer, spectrally, spymasters, stationery, steelyards, sterically, strathspey, strawberry, subvariety, suzerainty, sympatries, telegraphy, temporally, tenurially, teratology, terminably, terminally, texturally, tolerantly, tracklayer, trajectory, transiency, trenchancy, trierarchy, tryptamine, tyrannised, tyrannises, tyrannized, tyrannizer, tyrannizes, tyrosinase, ultraheavy, unliterary, vertically, veterinary, yardmaster, yesterdays, yesteryear.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Teary


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 61 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .    .-    .-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01100001 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0061 0072 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5471678491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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