Meanings
comparative more tearless · superlative most tearless
- Without tears.
Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes
2009 January 29, John Updike, “Requiem”, in New York Times2 more examples
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
1982, Judas Priest, “Electric Eye”, in Screaming for VengeanceI 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
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tearless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tearless
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