Tearful
adjective
Crying or likely to cry.
She gave me a tearful goodbye before she left.
Often appears as...
- tearful goodbye
- tearful reunion
adjective
Showing sorrow or pain.
His face had a tearful expression.
Often appears as...
- tearful expression
- tearful eyes
adjective
Crying or likely to cry.
She gave me a tearful goodbye before she left.
Often appears as...
- tearful goodbye
- tearful reunion
adjective
Showing sorrow or pain.
His face had a tearful expression.
Often appears as...
- tearful expression
- tearful eyes
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Moments
Use 'tearful' to describe moments filled with emotion causing someone to cry.
During the award ceremony, the winner's speech was tearful.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Sad
'Tearful' can also express happiness or relief, not exclusively sadness.
The reunion with her dog was tearful yet happy.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
'Tearful' often implies a strong emotional response but less than sobbing.
He received the news with a tearful nod.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Moments
Use 'tearful' to describe moments filled with emotion causing someone to cry.
During the award ceremony, the winner's speech was tearful.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Sad
'Tearful' can also express happiness or relief, not exclusively sadness.
The reunion with her dog was tearful yet happy.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
'Tearful' often implies a strong emotional response but less than sobbing.
He received the news with a tearful nod.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Moments
Use 'tearful' to describe moments filled with emotion causing someone to cry.
During the award ceremony, the winner's speech was tearful.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Sad
'Tearful' can also express happiness or relief, not exclusively sadness.
The reunion with her dog was tearful yet happy.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
'Tearful' often implies a strong emotional response but less than sobbing.
He received the news with a tearful nod.
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Video examples
Elizabeth Zion: The need...
It was a tearful night. And we had many more of those in the following seven months of our homelessness. And I could give you all of the statistics about family separation around the world or the harm it does children when they have parents who want to be together raising them
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Bee Therapy PIPE National...
but even separated from the bee the Stinger continues to inject venom into its victim the body responds with a flood of histamines and white blood cells and soon the area becomes hot red swollen and itchy me once tearful I don't even
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Time Debt PIPE Linda...
yellow for mellow and green for romance colors y'all don't lie I could see my romance at a glance and blissful Green Day's were always followed by tearful blue ones our life together was more sad
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Elizabeth Zion: The need...
It was a tearful night. And we had many more of those in the following seven months of our homelessness. And I could give you all of the statistics about family separation around the world or the harm it does children when they have parents who want to be together raising them
Video examples
Bee Therapy PIPE National...
but even separated from the bee the Stinger continues to inject venom into its victim the body responds with a flood of histamines and white blood cells and soon the area becomes hot red swollen and itchy me once tearful I don't even
Video examples
Time Debt PIPE Linda...
yellow for mellow and green for romance colors y'all don't lie I could see my romance at a glance and blissful Green Day's were always followed by tearful blue ones our life together was more sad
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Quote examples
Randy Bachman
Canadian Musician
When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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Marc Laidlaw
American Writer
The first 'Half-Life' movie treatment pitched to us climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children. The last one I saw had Black Mesa invaded by a cavalry unit, just so as to feature a scene of bullsquids tearing into armored horses.
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Bradley Walsh
English Actor
I remember watching the Twin Towers collapse. Because it was another country and looked like a film, I just sort of thought, 'Oh.' I didn't think that much. Then three days later, it hit me. I was in a terrible state, and I was tearful for three or four days.
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Kim Il-sung
North Korean Leader
South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.
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Christopher Lloyd
American Actor
When I go to Comic-Cons and people line up for autographs, so many people have a story about how they are moved, how they get tearful about what 'Back To The Future' meant to them.
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Peter Capaldi
Scottish Actor
My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.
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Conor Oberst
American Musician
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
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Beth Moore
American Author
I was an emotional wreck even as a young child, fearful and tearful.
Quote examples
Randy Bachman
Canadian Musician
When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
Quote examples
Marc Laidlaw
American Writer
The first 'Half-Life' movie treatment pitched to us climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children. The last one I saw had Black Mesa invaded by a cavalry unit, just so as to feature a scene of bullsquids tearing into armored horses.
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Bradley Walsh
English Actor
I remember watching the Twin Towers collapse. Because it was another country and looked like a film, I just sort of thought, 'Oh.' I didn't think that much. Then three days later, it hit me. I was in a terrible state, and I was tearful for three or four days.
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Kim Il-sung
North Korean Leader
South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.
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Christopher Lloyd
American Actor
When I go to Comic-Cons and people line up for autographs, so many people have a story about how they are moved, how they get tearful about what 'Back To The Future' meant to them.
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Peter Capaldi
Scottish Actor
My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.
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Conor Oberst
American Musician
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
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Beth Moore
American Author
I was an emotional wreck even as a young child, fearful and tearful.
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