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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Filled or wet with tears: teary eyes.
  2. adj. Of or resembling tears.
  3. adj. Causing weeping: a teary movie; a teary goodbye.
  4. adj. Inclined to weep: He becomes teary when he reminisces.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Full of tears; wet with tears; tearful.
  2. Falling in drops like tears.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.
  2. adj. Of eyes, filled with tears.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Wet with tears; tearful.
  2. adj. Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. with eyes full of tears

Etymologies

  1. tear +‎ -y (Wiktionary)

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