What's the difference between lachrymose and tearful?

Lachrymose


Definition:

  • (a.) Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She is deeply feeling for her country, her people and for those around her, and yet she has never been lachrymose.
  • (2) The prime minister's lachrymose performance had nothing to do with his agitated emotional state, Dmitry Peskov said, but was the result of an icy breeze whipping over the Kremlin's historic cobbles.
  • (3) Yanis Varoufakis: maverick economist with Greece’s fate in his hands Read more If Hardouvelis, had had his way the handover would have been uneventful, if a little lachrymose.
  • (4) But it had been a different week – no rallies, more fear than rage; stunned, lachrymose, frightened and frightening at every level and turn.
  • (5) But at the same time, lachrymose athletes are funny.
  • (6) But lachrymose apologies are neither the French nor Hollande's way.
  • (7) Eulogies have a tendency to be lachrymose and overblown but I don’t think it’s overstating the case to say that a part of British pop music has died with it.
  • (8) Arnett’s Gob Bluth – an insanely unintegrated magician , clueless cocksman and a champion of lachrymose self-loathing in times of crisis – stood out as a brilliant comic creation even among the monsters and gargoyles in the rest of the cast.
  • (9) The young women, in the book, alas, are both inspid and lachrymose.
  • (10) Lone Survivor is decidedly not The Green Berets, John Wayne's second feature as a director from 1968, deluded and lachrymose propaganda for a war that a majority of Americans by then already wanted to be over.
  • (11) It takes a lot to make this cynic weep, but I'm seriously waxing lachrymose now.
  • (12) The floodgates had burst even before half time, presaging the tidal wave of lachrymosity that was to engulf the country.

Tearful


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
  • (2) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
  • (3) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
  • (4) Recently the presence of a coating inhibitory factor was described in human tears which can prevent the binding of proteins to a solid phase.
  • (5) The typical signs of muscle tears and neuromuscular diseases in relation to normal sonomorphology are discussed.
  • (6) In one case MRI showed a false image of tear of the supra spinatus m. on its anterior edge.
  • (7) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
  • (8) In contrast, significant tear IgG increase was observed during the rejection phenomenon.
  • (9) At least one of these manipulative tests was positive in 79% of meniscal tears.
  • (10) Tests were undertaken to study resistance to tears in laser welded dental metal alloys.
  • (11) Death, helicopter crashes and tears: nurses' career-defining moments Read more Of course, we still continue to accept and treat patients as we always have.
  • (12) Even a long tear with a stable reduced position can be expected to show good healing.
  • (13) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
  • (14) According to Israeli media reports, the US statement had caused "senior officials in Jerusalem to tear out their hair".
  • (15) The patients usually had a history of recurrent hamstring "tears."
  • (16) Egged on by Israel, Trump has threatened to tear up Obama’s landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
  • (17) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
  • (18) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
  • (19) The MRI scan is a highly accurate, noninvasive modality for documentation of meniscal pathology as well as cruciate ligament tears in the knee.
  • (20) Lateral ligament tear is often associated with anterior cruciate ligament tear.