weepy
/ˈwiːpi
/informal
adjective (weepier, weepiest)
1Tearful; inclined to weep: seeing a bride always made her feel weepy...
- I also feel very weepy, clingy, and generally over emotional, but it only seems to happen at night.
- I was very upset and emotionally drained, and very weepy.
- You will return to my blog and blubber all over me in weepy gratitude once you've heard them.
Synonyms
tearful, in tears, crying, weeping, sobbing, wailing, snivelling, whimpering;
close to tears, on the verge of tears, with tears in one's eyes;
emotional, upset, distressed, sad, unhappy;
Scottish greeting
informal teary, blubbing, blubbering
rare lachrymose, larmoyant
1.1Sentimental: a weepy made-for-TV movie...
- If the soundtrack is any indication, the movie will alternate between sleep-inducing banality, weepy sentiment, and dumb stunts.
- There was none of the weepy sentimentality of the crowds who camped out on the night before Princess Diana's funeral.
- While you have to drag me kicking and screaming into sentimental, weepy Disney flicks, this one really got me.
noun (also weepie)
A sentimental film, book, or song.Part weepy, part thriller, the deliberately paced action is infused with unpredictable psychological insights and spiky dialogue....
- Eastwood is going to shift gears for the final third and turn it into a melodramatic weepy of the worst kind.
- It's a heart-warming weepy from the associate producer of Sleepless in Seattle.
Derivatives
weepily
- Metaphrog have produced three books about the most adorable character, Louis, each of which I have abandoned weepily a third of the way through.
- I am blessed with a son who is a pleasure to know and who has not exposed me to the teenage horrors of which I was warned and who I can weepily confess to loving deeply.
- The regular plotlines are basically a weepily comic version of ER.
weepiness
- Avoiding the weepiness and introspection of some of her contemporaries, she is a great storyteller with an enviable knack for updating her sound to fit the passing decades.
- The mode is post-Bridges of Madison County weepiness; the visual mood is shampoo-commercial wistfulness.
- She'd been fighting off the holiday depression pretty well but while our domestic goddess Inez was here the weepiness started.
Rhymes
- sternwheeler
- steroid
- steroidal
- sterol
- stertorous
- stertorously
- stet
- stethoscope
- stethoscoped
- stethoscopic
- stethoscopically
- stethoscopist
- stethoscopy
- Stetson
- Stettin
- Steuben, Friedrich von
- Steubenville
- steups
- St Eustatius
- stevedore
- Stevenage
- Stevengraph
- Stevens, John Paul
- Stevenson, Adlai
- Stevenson, Robert Louis