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tearsome en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈtɪɚ.səm/

Etymology

From tear + -some.

Meanings

1. Marked by tears or weeping
   • [...] jane told her parents / a massive tearsome sitdown [...] 2014, D Edward Ennis, Steve T Harding, The Weekly Exchange Volume Three:
   • [...] and they were seen on the holy mountains going with sad and tearsome faces: [...] 2009, Chiara Matraini, Selected Poetry and Prose:
   • And then he threw open the bedroom door and she commenced to laugh, but even then, it was a weepy, gasping, tearsome kind of laughter that was purely an overflowing of joy. 2011, Dixie Browning, The Baby Notion:

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