lachrymose

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lacrimōsus, from lacrima (“tear”) + -osus (“-ful”), from Old Latin dacrima, from Proto-Indo-European *dakru-, cognate with English tear.

adj

1. Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
   It is true that Limeans were given to interpolating trivial songs into the most exquisite comedies and some lachrymose effects into the austerest music; but at least they never submitted to the boredom of a misplaced veneration. 1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, page 69