Tearjerker (Noun)
Meaning
An excessively sentimental narrative.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The movie was such a tearjerker that I had to excuse myself from the theater to collect my thoughts.
- The author's latest novel is a classic tearjerker, guaranteed to leave even the toughest readers a little misty-eyed.
- By the end of the documentary, I was so overwhelmed by the tragic story that I had to admit it was a total tearjerker.
- The tearjerker of a TV episode had me sobbing so hard I had to rewatch it just to understand what happened.
- The bestselling tearjerker novel spent weeks on the charts, with readers devouring its sentimental and heartbreaking plot.