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weepy

American  
[wee-pee] / ˈwi pi /

adjective

weepier, weepiest
  1. weeping or tending to weep; tearful; lachrymose.

  2. Informal. sad or sentimental, especially to the point of causing one to weep.

    a movie with a weepy ending.

  3. exuding water or other moisture; leaky; seepy.


weepy British  
/ ˈwiːpɪ /

adjective

  1. liable or tending to weep

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a romantic and sentimental film or book

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of weepy

First recorded in 1595–1605; weep 1 + -y 1


Example Sentences

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The narrator is paranoid, weepy and violent, overwhelmed by visions of his own death, and the bass sounds as if it’s descending to a windowless dungeon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

But the war ended, and the smog didn’t, and L.A. wiped its weepy red eyes and demanded some solutions, dammit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Unlike Douglas Sirk’s beautifully photographed Technicolor melodramas of the 1950s, or the subgenre’s more narratively contemplative, weepy entries from the late ’70s, the new guard of romantic tearjerkers doesn’t have a pronounced stylistic draw.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

“Forces loyal to the absent Shah of Iran swept iron-willed, weepy old Premier Mohammed Mossadegh out of power today with a bloody nine-hour coup,” the Associated Press wrote Aug. 20, 1953.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

Dick was sick of him— his harmonica, his aches and ills, his superstitions, the weepy, womanly eyes, the nagging, whispering voice.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

When they moved on to a literary culture in which irony and postmodernism reigned supreme, they were still dragging the baggage of a simpler, weepier world.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2013

Written by Drake — the two were part of a group called the Renaissance, several years ago in Toronto — it’s a dark, slow creeper, with weepy piano and weepier lyrics about a no-good man.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2012

Funerals are getting weepier, and a good thing, too, according to the executive secretary of the National Funeral Directors Association.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the weepiest stretch of Pearl Jam’s otherwise celebratory debut at Climate Pledge Arena, which could be the start of something special.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

Above and below the snapshot are handwritten signs, reminders that have helped the actor mold his popular character, Papa Jack Pearson, on one of network TV’s weepiest family shows of the moment:

From Washington Times ● Mar. 13, 2017

To that effect, the Icelandic musician is the perfect choice for , which is easily Crowe’s weepiest tale to date.

From Time ● Dec. 27, 2011

The sight of a man coming down the aisle "wearing a smile" makes his old girl bust into tears; unquestionably the weepiest item since Cry.

From Time Magazine Archive

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