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adjective \ ˈwē-pē \

Definition of weepy

weepier; weepiest

:inclined to weep :tearful

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Examples of weepy in a Sentence

She started getting weepy when she talked about her mother.
I'm weepy enough that I even cry at happy endings to movies and books.

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Ice cream professional Jordan Dawkins, who works at Molly Moon's in Seattle, said in an expert interview that salted caramel, far and away, is the weepiest, fastest melting ice cream in the game.

— maggie lange, Bon Appetit, "The One Weird Thing About Salted Caramel Ice Cream," 4 Aug. 2017
The wonderfully weepy TV show delivered the feels every Tuesday night and turned the cast—including Chrissy Metz, Mandy Moore, Justin Hartley, Sterling K. Brown, and Milo Ventimiglia—into mega stars.

— christopher rosa, Glamour, "'This Is Us': Everything We Know About Season Two," 3 Aug. 2017
In the North, South Korean soap operas are far more than just weepy sagas of thwarted love.

— Washington Post, "In North Korea, a generation gap grows behind the propaganda," 30 July 2017
In the North, South Korean soap operas are far more than just weepy sagas of thwarted love.

— tim sullivan, The Seattle Times, "In North Korea, a generation gap grows behind the propaganda," 29 July 2017
For Nolan, born in London in 1970 to an American mother and a British father, Dunkirk is akin to checking a patriotic box and securing a pass to its permanent pageant of nostalgia and weepy self-congratulation.

— christian lorentzen, New Republic, "Dunkirk Manages to Make War Boring," 25 July 2017
Her gestures are rectilinear, her mimicry of weak, weepy Americans a marvel of insult mime.

— james wolcott, vanityfair.com, "I’m Dying Up Here," 20 July 2017
Her gestures are rectilinear, her mimicry of weak, weepy Americans a marvel of insult mime.

— james wolcott, HWD, "Netflix’s Charming GLOW and Showtime’s Glowless I’m Dying Up Here," 20 July 2017
A woman moving so far beyond delicate, weepy declarations of loss and longing to express explicit rage in the context of a sexual relationship does not, traditionally, a Top 40 single make.

— kim france, Daily Intelligencer, "Feminism Rocks," 30 June 2017

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First Known Use of weepy

15th century

weepy Synonyms

Synonyms

lachrymose, teary, tearful

Near Antonyms

beaming, chuckling, giggling, grinning, laughing, smiling; blithe, blithesome, cheerful, cheery, gay, happy, jocose, jovial, lighthearted, lightsome, merry, mirthful, sunny

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