Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Liable to weep easily: Describes a person who is prone to crying or becoming tearful with little provocation. It can also describe something, like a movie or story, that is emotionally sad and likely to make people cry.

Usage

• The adjective "weepy" is used to characterize a person's emotional tendency or the emotional effect of a piece of media.
• It is typically used in informal contexts.
• It can be used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like "be" or "feel").

Examples

• Describing a person:
  • She's been feeling very weepy since watching that sad documentary.
  • He gets weepy at the end of every romantic comedy.
• Describing a thing (e.g., a film):
  • It's a classic, weepy drama about lost love.
  • I'm not in the mood for a weepy movie tonight.

Advanced Usage

• "to be in a weepy mood": to be in a state where one feels like crying easily.
  • The hormones made her in a weepy mood all the time during her pregnancy.
• Used to describe overly sentimental or maudlin artistic works.
  • The novel's ending was criticized for being overly weepy and manipulative.

Variants and Related Words

• Weep (verb): To cry, to shed tears.
  • She began to weep quietly.
• Weepiness (noun): The state or quality of being weepy.
  • A sudden wave of weepiness overcame her.

Synonyms

• Tearful: Full of tears; inclined to cry.
• Emotional: Readily affected by or expressing emotion.
• Maudlin: Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often due to drunkenness. (This has a more negative connotation than "weepy".)

Antonyms

• Stoic: Enduring pain and hardship without showing feelings or complaining.
• Unemotional: Not having or showing strong feelings.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• To have a good weep: To have a satisfying, cathartic cry.
  • Sometimes you just need to have a good weep to feel better.
• Weepy-eyed: Having eyes filled with tears.
  • The weepy-eyed child looked for his mother.

Adjective

1. liable to weep easily