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TEARLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tearless mean?
• TEARLESS (adjective)
The adjective TEARLESS has 1 sense:
1. free from tears
Familiarity information: TEARLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free from tears
Synonyms:
dry-eyed; tearless
Similar:
dry (not shedding tears)
Antonym:
tearful (filled with or marked by tears)
Context examples
I gazed on it with gloom and pain: nothing soft, nothing sweet, nothing pitying, or hopeful, or subduing did it inspire; only a grating anguish for her woes—not my loss—and a sombre tearless dismay at the fearfulness of death in such a form.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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