Synonym: crying, sad, weeping. Similar words: fearful, fearfully, nuclear fusion, darfur, wear and tear, colourful, powerful, cheerful. Meaning: ['tɪrfʊl / 'tɪəfʊl] 
adj. 1. filled with or marked by tears 2. showing sorrow.
adj. 1. filled with or marked by tears 2. showing sorrow. 
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1. He refused to listen to her tearful pleas.
2. She suddenly became very tearful.
3. He answered in a tearful voice.
4. She sounded angry and tearful.
5. We had a tearful parting at the airport.
6. The lawyer made a tearful plea to bias the jury.
7. Defeat left her tearful, pale and drained.
8. I felt quite emotional?almost tearful.
9. She made a tearful phone call to her family.
10. John gently disengaged himself from his sister's tearful embrace.
11. He suddenly became very tearful.
12. Her tearful eyes brightened with interest.
13. Children often get fractious and tearful when tired.
14. Getting lost is a tearful experience for a child.
15. You may feel tearful in situations where you feel conspicuous.
16. A tearful husband repeated calls for help in catching the fiend who battered his wife.
17. After a tearful farewell at the station, we went our separate ways.
18. She became very tearful when pressed to talk about it.http://sentencedict.com/tearful.html
19. Oh yes, I felt tearful, but I laughed more at your antics.
20. She turned on him a glance of tearful gratitude that caused Karelius an unexpectedly sharp pang of jealousy.
21. Smith gave an account that contradicted the woman's tearful testimony last week.
22. Yesterday, after that tearful reunion with my suitcase, I tried to get a negro hand-slapping thing going with Felix.
23. Once again he listened calmly to her tearful pleas, and once again Scott refused to walk out on the station and join Annabel.
24. He imagined himself driving a tearful Anne and Abigail back to Beryl, then finding Adam a good lawyer.
25. She had confided this to Liz in a tearful moment, not long after Jonathan had run off with the Williams girl.
26. I was distraught and let out a bellow of tearful rage.
27. On many occasions during those first few months, she was moody, tearful and uncommunicative.
28. He smiled at her, trying to look comforting; he was feeling almost as tearful himself.
29. Once in bed she felt unable to move at all and became tearful.
30. In the large bed was a boy, who looked tired and cross, with a thin, white, tearful face.
More similar words: fearful, fearfully, nuclear fusion, darfur, wear and tear, colourful, powerful, cheerful, colorful, hear from, wonderful, cheerfully, powerfully, tear, wonderfully, tears, tear off, tear up, nuclear family, in tears, tear gas, tearing, tear down, crocodile tears, near and dear, learn by heart, year after year, warfare, wharf, scarf.