lacrimose
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "The onion-man, become blear-eyed by constantly eating acrid tear-bringing onions. / The Endive besides, stretching out with feet like horses— / The tear-producing onion also, with its lacrimose shells in due succession— / . . . a pitcher and a long bowl with two handles— / Go on and prosper with your virtue, say I, and with these verses."
- "“What, wallowing in loneliness?” asked Jane. “I can hear your heartrate falling and your breathing getting heavy. In a moment you’ll either be asleep, dead, or lacrimose.”"
- "He was a lacrimose and remarkable-looking fellow, and Maggie saw at once two other even more remarkable things about him: he was waving a big blue squarish gun and he looked oddly familiar—suddenly she recognized the face in the backseat of Joe Dale’s car from long ago."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin lacrima Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Latin lacrimōsuslbor. English lacrimose Learned borrowing from Latin lacrimōsus.
Inflected Forms
more lacrimose (comparative)
most lacrimose (superlative)