tearjerker
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- noun
- /ˈtɪrˌdʒɜrkər/
- Informal
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drama lacrimógeno
- It's definitely a tearjerker, but in a good and tender way.
- a real tearjerker
- a romantic tearjerker
- a tearjerker movie
And excuse me, ma'am, what a, a, what a tearjerker.
- And excuse me, ma'am, what a, a, what a tearjerker.
Examples
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Many people consider 'The Notebook' to be a classic tearjerker due to its emotional love story.
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His story was a tearjerker.
Fiction book (2001) -
The showcase at the end of the camp week is a tearjerker every time.
Blog text (9) -
The Boy Meets World finale was always a bit of a tearjerker for me.
Blog text (20) -
Yeah, that's a real tearjerker.
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And the little touches of surrealism save it from just being a treacly tearjerker...
Blog text (20) -
"This is the kind of tasteful tearjerker that's often overrated and smothered with prizes for flattering our tolerance and sensitivity," wrote critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Blog text (34) -
The film was such a tearjerker that I couldn't stop crying during the final scene.
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The stage play was called a tearjerker for its powerful depiction of loss and heartache.
Synonyms
An emotional film or story that makes people cry
A film that makes people cry
A movie that is too sweet and emotionally fake
Words or stories meant to make people feel pity by showing personal suffering
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tearjerker comes from the words tear meaning 'a drop from the eye when you cry' and jerk meaning 'to pull'. So a tearjerker is like something that 'pulls' your tears out, which is why the word describes a book or film made to make people cry.