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teary
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective teary has 1 sense
- teary(s = adj.all) teary-eyed, watery-eyed - with eyes full of tears; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
teary, a.
- Wet with tears; tearful. [1913 Webster]
- Consisting of tears, or drops like tears. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
teary
bathetic, beery, blubbering, cloying, crying, dissolved in tears, gooey, gushing, in tears, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, ready to cry, romantic, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sloppy, sniveling, sobbing, soft, sticky, tear-jerking, tearful, weeping, weepy, whimpering, with eyes suffused
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