lachrymose

Borrowed from Latin lacrimōsus, from lacrima (“tear”) + -osus (“-ful”), from Old Latin dacrima, from Proto-Indo-European *dakru-, cognate with English tear.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæk.ɹɪ.moʊs/

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lachrymose (comparative more lachrymose, superlative most lachrymose)

1. Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
   • 1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, page 69:

     It is true that Limeans were given to interpolating trivial songs into the most exquisite comedies and some lachrymose effects into the austerest music; but at least they never submitted to the boredom of a misplaced veneration.

• lachrymatory
• lachrymosely
• lachrymosity
• unlachrymose