tearless

tearless

English

Etymology

From tear +‎ -less.

Adjective

tearless (comparative more tearless, superlative most tearless)

  1. Without tears.
    • 1982, Judas Priest, “Electric Eye”, in Screaming for Vengeance:
      My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
    • 1986, Craig G. Harris, “Cut Off from Among Their People”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 67:
      I see us passing, one after another — tearless funerals, the widowed treated like non-entities
    • 2009 January 29, John Updike, “Requiem”, in New York Times[1]:
      Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes

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