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tearless

tearless adjective: without tears.

Adjective

tearless (comparative more tearless, superlative most tearless)

  1. Without tears.
    • My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove1982, Judas Priest, “Electric Eye”, in Screaming for Vengeance
    • I see us passing, one after another — tearless funerals, the widowed treated like non-entities1986, Craig G. Harris, “Cut Off from Among Their People”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 67

Forms of tearless

comparativemore tearless
superlativemost tearless

Origin of tearless

From tear + -less.

Words formed from tearless

Questions about tearless

What does tearless mean?
Tearless means without tears.
What part of speech is tearless?
Tearless is an adjective.

Words near tearless in the dictionary

  1. tearjerker
  2. tearjerkers
  3. tearjerking
  4. tearjerkingly
  5. Tearle
  6. tearless
  7. tearlessly
  8. tearlessness
  9. tearlet
  10. tearlets
  11. tearlike

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