Lachrymose

Antonyms for lachrymose:

jovial, merry, jocose, blithesome, mirthful, sunny, blithe, joyful.

Synonyms for lachrymose:

Sense 1

teary.

Sense 2

weepy, emotional.

Other synonyms and related words:

pendulous, sorrowful, teary, weepy, dolourous, weeping, tearful, drooping, emotional.

crying (adjective)

teary, tearful, weeping, weepy, sad.

dejected (adjective)

blue, disconsolate, disheartened, heartbroken, melancholy, sad, despondent, contemplative, miserable, gloomy, despairing, morose, moody, dreary, woeful, depressed, downhearted, sullen, discouraged, pensive, plaintive, mournful, dolorous, dejected, grim, wistful, joyless, overcome, anxious, glum, anguished, dispirited.

tearful (adjective)

teary, tearful.

Sense 2 (noun)

weepy, teary.

lachrymose (noun)

sorrowful, dolourous, tearful, weeping, dolorous.

Usage examples for lachrymose:

• Then Massot designated another deputy in the same group, a man of fifty or thereabouts, of slovenly aspect and lachrymose mien, lanky, too, like a maypole, and somewhat bent by the weight of his head, which was long and suggestive of a horse's. - "Paris From the "Three Cities"", Emile Zola.
• Adderley watched them too with a kind of lachrymose interest. - "God's Good Man", Marie Corelli.
• Both babies were wailing lugubriously, and the parent Momebys had scarcely recovered from their earlier lachrymose condition. - "The Chronicles of Clovis", Saki.