Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Filled or wet with tears: teary eyes.
- adj. Of or resembling tears.
- adj. Causing weeping: a teary movie; a teary goodbye.
- adj. Inclined to weep: He becomes teary when he reminisces.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of tears; wet with tears; tearful.
- Falling in drops like tears.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Wet with tears; tearful.
- adj. Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. with eyes full of tears
Etymologies
- tear + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We have to come through moments like that, these make or break moments in tournaments," defender Gary Neville said after emerging from what he described as a teary dressing room.”
USATODAY.com - England loses Beckham, Rooney and penalty shootout as Portugal advances
“She should just be glad no one ever called the teary-eyed lip-biter the first woman president.”
“KING: He is in heaven, the president told one parent during what aides described as a teary-eyed very emotional 30 minutes with the Marine families.”
“She should also stress the point that even though she is an ordinary person (as demonstrated in the "teary" ad), she also has vast and specific experience that makes her qualified to lead, not because of who she is, but because of what she has done.”
Some Hillary Advisers Worry About Staying In Past New Hampshire; Others Urge Her To Fight On
“Things are kind of teary and giddy around here today.”
“It made me get teary which is really not good for my butch street-cred.”
Linda turns psychic and I muse about her as caregiver and lover.
“As I thought about what to say, I saw that her tear-filled eyes weren't quite as "teary" as they had been.”
“You can see the kids there kind of teary eyed as a result.”
“And then when he came out, he was still kind of teary when I was talking to him.”
“She got kind of teary which was unusual, but then I think she may have been frightened about us flying.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘teary’.
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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BetaRish's Words
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Blur of Blue
If sadness were a cloud of words ....
sinking, desolate, forlorn, lost, alone, meek, disheartened, bleak, cold, teary, weep, sadness and 10 more...
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