lachrymose

adjective

1 she gets quite lachrymose at the mention of his name:

tearful, weeping, crying, teary, with tears in one's eyes, close to tears, on the verge of tears, sobbing, snivelling, whimpering;

emotional, sad, mournful, woeful, unhappy, depressed, gloomy, melancholy, low-spirited, despondent, downcast, low, glum, morose, sorrowful, joyless, disconsolate, doleful, maudlin, miserable, forlorn, grief-stricken, lugubrious;

informal weepy, blubbering, down, down in the mouth, blue;

literary dolorous;

rare larmoyant.

▷antonyms cheerful, laughing, happy.

2 a lachrymose novel:

tragic, sad, poignant, heart-rending, tear-jerking, moving, melancholy, depressing, plaintive;

mawkish, sentimental;

British, informal soppy.

▷antonyms comic.

lachrymose Oxford Dictionary of English