Word of the Day:
tearful
What It Means
Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry.
Aaron got a little tearful until Laura came to reassure him.
Tearful in Context
“Receiving the news of Joseph Beam's death two days after Christmas was a piercing blow that sent me into a tearful and contemplative stupor from which I have not yet emerged.”
Did You Know?
From tear + -ful.
Source and license
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