CRYsomeone who is tearful is crying a little, or almost crying 哭泣的;含泪的,快要哭的
a tearful farewell
含泪的告别
—tearfullyadverbadv
She looked at me tearfully.
她泪汪汪地看着我。
Examples from the Corpus
tearful• Once in bed she felt unable to move at all and became tearful.• For some fans, it wasn't enough to leave trinkets and pictures scrawled with tearful goodbye messages in just one place.• a tearful goodbye• He smiled at her, trying to look comforting; he was feeling almost as tearful himself.• Once again he listened calmly to her tearful pleas, and once again Scott refused to walk out on the station and join Annabel.• She had a tearfulreunion with her parents, Alan and Audrey, who stayed at the hospitalovernight.• Few people watching the tearful, scruffily-dressed woman burst through the court doors to freedom would have recognised her as a countess.