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词汇 tearful
释义 tearful
adjective
uk /ˈtɪə.fəl/ us /ˈtɪr.fəl/
crying or likely to cry: 含泪的;流泪的;可能会哭的
After a tearful farewell at the airport , we went our separate ways.在机场含泪告别后,我们便各自踏上了自己的旅程。
Katy's always a bit tearful when it's time to go back to school.到了该回学校的时候,凯蒂总是哭哭啼啼的。
Synonym
lachrymoseliterary
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Weeping and crying
bawl
blubber
boohoo
break down
bucket
burst out laughing/cryingidiom
close to tears
eye-watering
grizzle
have a sookidiom
lachrymose
lachrymosely
mewl
tear duct
tear something up
tear-stained
tear-streaked
teardrop
tearfully
waterworks

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tearful | American Dictionary


tearful
adjective
us/ˈtɪər·fəl/
with tears of sadness:
The school year ended with tearful farewells to favorite teachers and best friends.

Examples of tearful


tearful
It was observed that she was tearful when she was asked to take off her lower garments.
Interestingly, three subjects in this study reported sudden unaccountable anxiety with one becoming tearful during stimulation.
I was scared, and became tearful, looking at my wife.
The exhausted and tearful youngster learnt that 'you cannot afford to forget things ' (p. 57).
She appeared tearful, anxious, and agitated when she was advised of her baby's serious medical problems.
At the end of the visit she was no longer tearful and her mood had brightened considerably.
Margaret's tearful response shows how deeply entrenched is her internalization of spinsterhood.
Tearful, having to go without a drink, by the sound of it.
Have you been tearful or crying?
Tearful emotionality, of the kind usually labelled 'sentimental', mediated by song, film, and television, has forged nations and citizens and a sense of place in the modern world.
To that they were tearful is an understatement.
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I think one has to be a little less tearful about that than many members of the profession appear to be in their present mood.
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I look on that with one joyful eye and one tearful eye.
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However, he must not appeal to me by way of tearful blandishment.
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It has been the usual plum of the slightly tearful, rather hopeful and vaguely sneerful.
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