lachrymose

tearful or given to weeping


I just read an article that described Rainer Maria Rilke as, among other things, lachrymose.

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One Response to lachrymose

  1. Dad says:

    I am mortified!! All these years I have been using that word incorrectly as describing persons with sloping eyebrows. Thanks for setting me straight.

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