lachrymose means tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 76 out of 100.
Why this word is great
LACHRYMOSE — [Adjective] Tending toward or inducing tears; mournfully tearful. From the Latin lacrima ("tear") and the adjectival suffix -osus ("full of"). Unlike "sad" (a general interior state) or "melancholy" (a pensive, enduring gloom), "lachrymose" describes an outward readiness to dissolve, an aqueous disposition. It is the glistening sheen on a mourner's cheek in a dim church, the swollen sheen of rain on a windowpane the morning after a funeral, and the calculated moisture in a performer's eye—a testament to the body's quiet insistence on making its grief measurable, and to sorrow's capacity for both sincerity and performance.
adj
- Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.“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.”