Lacrimose

Definition of lacrimose:

part of speech: adjective

Bearing tear- shaped appendages, as the gills of certain Fungi.

part of speech: adjective

Tearful.

part of speech: adjective

Tearful; sad; as, a lacrimose tone of voice. Also, lachrymose.

Usage examples for lacrimose:

• The event proved that he had reckoned well: the " brilliant drops" fell copiously, the innovation crossed the Channel, and soon the bourgeois tragedy,- whence by an easy differentiation the lacrimose pathetic, or serious comedy,- had entered upon its European career. "The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller", Calvin Thomas.

• His lacrimose raptures over so simple a thing as a youthful friendship; his abject confession of despair and dependence; his long- drawn- out revelation of a sick heart, and his morbid craving for sympathy in a passion which he himself feels to be abominable,- all this suggests a cankered soul of which there can be little hope. "The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller", Calvin Thomas.

• Either they were veiled by a distant setting of the scene, or the indictment of the age was presented incidentally in connection with some lacrimose tragedy of the individual. "The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller", Calvin Thomas.