tearless

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adjective

Without tears.

Opposite
RareScrabble 8

Meanings

adjectivetearless (comparative more tearless, superlative most tearless)

comparative more tearless · superlative most tearless

  1. Without tears.

    Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes

    2009 January 29, John Updike, “Requiem”, in New York Times
    2 more examples

    My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove

    1982, Judas Priest, “Electric Eye”, in Screaming for Vengeance

    I see us passing, one after another — tearless funerals, the widowed treated like non-entities

    1986, Craig G. Harris, “Cut Off from Among Their People”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 67

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivefree from tears

Opposite
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

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Chicago

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