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lachrymosal

lachrymosal is the alternative form of lachrymose.

Meaning of lachrymose

Adjective

lachrymose (comparative more lachrymose, superlative most lachrymose)

  1. Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
    • It is true that Limeans were given to interpolating trivial songs into the most exquisite comedies and some lachrymose effects into the austerest music; but at least they never submitted to the boredom of a misplaced veneration.1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, page 69

Forms of lachrymosal

comparativemore lachrymosal
superlativemost lachrymosal

Questions about lachrymosal

What is lachrymosal the alternative form of?
Lachrymosal is the alternative form of lachrymose.

Words near lachrymosal in the dictionary

  1. lachrymist
  2. lachrymists
  3. lachrymogenic
  4. lachrymojugal
  5. lachrymonasal
  6. lachrymosal
  7. lachrymose
  8. lachrymosely
  9. lachrymoseness
  10. lachrymosities
  11. lachrymosity

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