1 (of a person) crying, or about to cry:
She suddenly became very tearful. * He answered in a tearful voice.
2 (of an event, etc.) at which people feel emotional and cry:
a tearful farewell * She made a tearful phone call to her family.
tearfully adverb:
'Why are you doing this?' she asked tearfully.
tearfulness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tearful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is tearful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, tearful is tagged as adjective.
Does tearful appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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