lachrymose - meaning and definition. What is lachrymose
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lachrymose      
Someone who is lachrymose cries very easily and very often. (LITERARY)
...the tears of lachrymose mourners.
ADJ
Lachrymose      
·adj Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
lachrymose      
['lakr?m??s, -z]
¦ adjective
1. tearful.
2. inducing tears; sad.
Derivatives
lachrymosely adverb
lachrymosity noun
Origin
C17 (in the sense 'like tears'): from L. lacrimosus, from lacrima 'tear'.
Examples of use of lachrymose
1. Oozing sincerity, the Prime Minister switched from that gap–toothed smile of charm to lachrymose emotion.
2. Frankly, this pageant of lachrymose self–pity made me thoroughly ashamed to be English.
3. I can‘t say I blamed them, given the lachrymose lunacy on the streets of our capital city.
4. Not since the old, familial days of the yiddishe mama, have Jewish clans had such good, lachrymose days.
5. Tears in politics, after all, are not an unfamiliar occurrence: Bill Clinton was famously lachrymose, David Blunkett cried on TV after his (first) resignation.