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lacrymose

lacrymose 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 lacrymose

comparativemore lacrymose
superlativemost lacrymose

Questions about lacrymose

What is lacrymose the alternative form of?
Lacrymose is the alternative form of lachrymose.

Words near lacrymose in the dictionary

  1. lacrymary
  2. lacrymator
  3. lacrymatories
  4. lacrymators
  5. lacrymatory
  6. lacrymose
  7. lacs
  8. Lacson
  9. Lacsons
  10. lact-
  11. lactaceous

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