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[syn: teary, teary-eyed, watery-eyed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Teary \Tear"y\, a.
1. Wet with tears; tearful.
[1913 Webster]
2. Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
teary
adj 1: with eyes full of tears [syn: teary, teary-eyed,
watery-eyed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "teary":
bathetic, beery, blubbering, cloying, crying, dissolved in tears,
gooey, gushing, in tears, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory,
maudlin, mawkish, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic,
oversentimental, oversentimentalized, ready to cry, romantic,
sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sloppy, sniveling, sobbing,
soft, sticky, tear-jerking, tearful, weeping, weepy, whimpering,
with eyes suffused