: a story, song, play, film, or broadcast that moves or is intended to move its audience to tears
What's Trending Now
More Trending Words
Examples of tearjerker in a Sentence
I'm not in the mood to see a tearjerker. Let's watch something funny instead.
Recent Examples of tearjerker from the Web
-
The tragic story is one of the most enduring tearjerkers.
-
Remember Me’ song was a tearjerker on the big screen and even more so in Alexander’s rendition.
-
Another tearjerker: superteen Chloe Kim's father's reaction to her incredible gold-medal-winning run on the half-pipe course on Monday.
-
The Houston part of this tearjerker supreme centers around the tasteful two-story dwelling of widow Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine), located on Locke Lane in a posh but hardly ostentatious section of River Oaks.
-
Get your tissues ready, this one's going to be a tearjerker.
-
In honor of its milestone birthday, here are the stars whose hearts still go on for the tearjerker.
-
Here are seven predictions for what’s to come in season three of The Crown, including Princess Diana, a political revolution, and the one episode that’s guaranteed to be a tearjerker in light of recent events.
-
From tearjerkers to out of this world mysteries, this year’s crop of nominees covered the spectrum of drama genres.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tearjerker.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of tearjerker
1912
Other Performing Arts Terms
TEARJERKER Defined for English Language Learners
Learn More about tearjerker
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up tearjerker? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
