Definition of lachrymose:

part of speech: adjective

Generating or shedding tears; tearful; sad; doleful.

Usage examples:

• Not only does this story contain such genuine humorous portraiture as the lachrymose Mrs. Holt, and the delightfully quaint Job Tudge, but it is also enriched by some descriptions of rural scenery and of homely existence in remote country districts as admirable as any to be found in her writings. Mathilde Blind in "George Eliot".

• Nearly three lachrymose pages of love frustrated followed these lines. in "".