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tearless en · ADJ

Etymology

From tear + -less.

Meanings

1. Without tears.
   • My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove 1982, Judas Priest, “Electric Eye”, in Screaming for Vengeance:
   • I see us passing, one after another — tearless funerals, the widowed treated like non-entities 1986, Craig G. Harris, “Cut Off from Among Their People”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 67:
   • Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes 2009 January 29, John Updike, “Requiem”, in New York Times:

Forms

Deriveds

tearlessness · tearlessly