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# tearful

«tearful» in Mova's school dictionary: **crying, or close to tears, with wet eyes or a shaky voice** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more tearful, most tearful)

### meaning for a pupil

Tearful means crying, or close to tears, with wet eyes or a shaky voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tearful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a sad character who weeps or speaks in a broken voice; in tales a loving heart is often tearful

### examples

- He spoke in a tearful voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tearful/#x1)
- The little girl was tearful after she lost her doll. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tearful/#x2)
- Her tearful eyes looked out over the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tearful/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tearful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tearful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.