Synonyms:
tearful
Meaning: filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful entreaties"
Usage examples
"No, no," came the voice, now curiously tearful.
O no. Then list with tearful eye, Whilst I his fate do tell.
He put his two hands on her shoulders and looked straight into her tearful face.
Silent and tearful, he stood upon an ice-bound rock, straining his eyes across the boundless vista of the mysterious territory.
We arrived at Vaughan St. Mary late in the afternoon of the second day. The whole of the journey was to me a long and tearful dream.
While they were thus comfortably occupied, Mr. Woodhouse was enjoying a full flow of happy regrets and tearful affection with his daughter.
He was in the clasp of the Grand Inquisitor himself, the venerable Pedro Arbuez d'Espila, who gazed at him with tearful eyes, like a good shepherd who had found his stray lamb.
By the last of March this ardent desire was granted, and he hurried away in fine spirits, leaving May pale and tearful, but with a ring on her finger that had not been there before.
The household at Hilcrest did not break up as early as usual that year. A few days were consumed in horrified remonstrances and tearful pleadings on the part of Mrs. Merideth and Ned when Margaret's plans became known.
Little children with tearful faces pressed against the pane watch and wait. Their means of livelihood, their home, their happiness is gone. Fatherless children, broken-hearted women, sick, disabled and dead men--this is the wage of war.