teary-eyed

1. 1.

   with eyes full of tears

   Synonymstearywatery-eyed

   Similartearful

Questions about teary-eyed

What does teary-eyed mean?

teary-eyed means "with eyes full of tears".

How many syllables are in teary-eyed?

teary-eyed has 3 syllables and divides as tea-ry-e-yed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for teary-eyed?

Close synonyms include teary, watery-eyed. 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.