tearful

Other forms of tearful

comparative

tearfuller·

superlative

tearfullest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tearful

What does tearful mean?

tearful means "filled with or marked by tears". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tearful?

tearful has 2 syllables: tear-ful. The stress falls on "tear". In IPA it is /ˈtɪɹfəl/.

What is another word for tearful?

Close synonyms include dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, weeping. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of tearful?

The recorded antonyms are tearless.

Is tearful a common word?

tearful is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.