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LACHRYMOSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lachrymose mean?
• LACHRYMOSE (adjective)
The adjective LACHRYMOSE has 1 sense:
1. showing sorrow
Familiarity information: LACHRYMOSE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing sorrow
Synonyms:
dolorous; dolourous; lachrymose; tearful; weeping
Similar:
sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)
Context examples
But I would not be lachrymose: I dashed off the salt drops, and busied myself with preparing breakfast.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The best fun was with Madame Joubert: Miss Wilson was a poor sickly thing, lachrymose and low- spirited, not worth the trouble of vanquishing, in short; and Mrs. Grey was coarse and insensible; no blow took effect on her.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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