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weepies

weepies is the plural of weepie.

weepies is the plural of weepy.

Meaning of weepie

Noun

weepie (plural weepies)

  1. (colloquial) A sad or sentimental film, often portraying troubled romance, designed to elicit a tearfully emotional response from its audience.
    • John is white, Della is Black, and any interracial relationship isn’t just a legal dead end, but a threat to their very lives from the disapproving world that surrounds them. It all sounds like a Hallmark weepie, but in Robinson’s hands, it becomes transcendent.2020 September 28, Alex McLevy, “Marilynne Robinson finds transcendence in the stunning, soul-searching Jack”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2020

Meaning of weepy

Adjective

weepy (comparative weepier, superlative weepiest)

  1. Inclined to weep; tearful or lachrymose.
  2. (informal) Of a film or book etc.: full of tragic melodrama.
    • When Tomorrow Comes was probably some sort of weepy love story which always got him laughing like a drain, often leading to his physical removal from the one and nines.2013, Tom Davies, Polly Garter's War

Phrases with weepies

Questions about weepies

What is weepies the plural of?
Weepies is the plural of weepie.

Words near weepies in the dictionary

  1. weepful
  2. weephole
  3. weepholes
  4. weepie
  5. weepier
  6. weepies
  7. weepiest
  8. weepily
  9. weepin'
  10. weepiness
  11. weeping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weepies (page history and authors); weepie (page history and authors); weepy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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