teary-eyed
9
3.2
- adjective
- /ˈtɪəri aɪd/
:
con los ojos llorosos
- Just look at your president, getting all teary-eyed for the second time in as many days.
I mean, I'm going to get teary eyed now, but I have allergies.
- I mean, I'm going to get teary eyed now, but I have allergies.
- If you can make people teary eyed, wow, that's very unique.
- I every time I saw his mention, I would just get teary eyed.
- I mean, I don't, I'm almost I really never get like teary eyed at a movie.
- Got me, got me teary eyed, got me fully all right, tears falling out of my eyeballs.
- And it just, it breaks my heart that people, it can be like that to other people and it teary eyed.
Examples
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You are such an amazing human being, and I am getting teary-eyed just typing this!
Blog text (30) -
The camera pans the audience of teary-eyed parents, many of them with camcorders.
Fiction book (1999) -
At first, he got slightly teary-eyed, and then he got a huge smile on his face.
Blog text (21) -
And a lot of them make me all teary-eyed, which I love.
Blog text (34) -
But I got a little teary-eyed, and I was very emotional by the end.
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My big boys get quiet and teary-eyed when they hear me singing on occasion to their little brother.
Blog text (2) -
I was quite depressed and a little teary-eyed.
Academic text (1997) -
The moment is interrupted, and I am directed to a new student, a slight, teary-eyed boy who hesitantly enters my office.
Academic text (2005) -
We dolly past the bland faces of teary-eyed graduates until we stop on Enid.
Fiction book (2001) -
She became teary-eyed during the emotional farewell at her friend's wedding.
Synonyms
64
2.0
Crying because you feel very sad or touched
26
1.8
Showing you are about to cry because of a strong feeling
21
2.0
Having eyes that look ready to cry
20
3.7
Feeling like you want to cry easily
5
4.8
Eyes are wet with tears because of strong feeling
1
4.1
Having eyes full of tears and looking as if about to cry
1
9.9
Showing sadness or making people want to cry
Antonyms
How Teary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Teary-eyed joins teary (from tear, 'a drop of water from the eye') and eyed (like in blue-eyed). So it means 'having eyes full of tears', which makes a clear picture to remember.