Tearjerker

Quick meaning: Tearjerker is a noun meaning (informal) An emotionally charged film, novel, song, opera, television episode, etc., usually with one or more sad passages or ending.

Meaning

(informal) An emotionally charged film, novel, song, opera, television episode, etc., usually with one or more sad passages or ending.

Example Sentences

The many tear-jerkers deal with finality, with death and the end of love, with a stoicism pregnant with feeling.

Renamed in honor of the tube tearjerker, the work wondrously went on to become the most recognized theme in all of soapdom.

The psychologist Paul Rozin lumps tearjerkers with other examples of benign masochism like smoking, riding on roller coasters, eating hot chili peppers, and sitting in saunas.

Word Forms

• tearjerkers
• tear-jerker
• tear jerker

Synonyms for tearjerker

Depending on context, synonyms include cryfest, sobfest.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tear-jerker, cryfest, tear, heartbreaker, chiller, tragedy.

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