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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 sorrowplay

  Familiarity information: LACHRYMOSE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LACHRYMOSE (adjective)


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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