That provokes tears or sorrow; deplorable, lamentable; pitiful.

Causing tears; mournful, melancholy. ? Obsolete.

Mournful; tearful.

Of or relating to tears or sadness (cf. lachrymal, adj. 1b). Also (Anatomy): involved in the secretion of tears; = lacrimal, adj.

Tending to provoke tears or sorrow; mournful, gloomy, sad, (sometimes) spec. exaggeratedly or sentimentally so.

That causes the eyes to water or smart; that makes a person shed tears of sorrow, laughter, pain, etc.

That may be cried or wept over.

Of a story, film, or performance: maudlin and over-sentimental, tear-jerking. Cf. weepie, n.