Meaning of raudulīgs | Babel Free

Definitions

1. tearful (who cries often)
2. tearful (who cries too often, typically without a good reason; overly sensitive)
3. tearful (in which crying can be heard or felt)
4. tearful (who complains all the time; expressing such frequent complaining)
5. tearful, lachrymose (which inspires sorrow, grief; also mushy, sentimental)

Equivalents

Examples

“raudulīgs bērns”

tearful child, crybaby

“ja bērns dažreiz ir raudulīgs, nemierīgs, tad tam ir kādi iemesli: augošs zobs, slims vēderiņš”

if a child is sometimes tearful, restless, then there is a cause for that: a growing tooth, a sick tummy

“Jaņukam nepatīk raudulīgas meitenes”

Jaņuks doesn't like tearful girls

“slimnieki bieži kļūst raudulīgi, viegli uzbudināmi un nervozi”

patients often become tearful, easily excitable and nervous

“runāt raudulīgā balsī”

to speak in a tearful voice

“viņa apaļā seja bez vaibsta, bez dzīvības; no brūnajām acīm nekad neizzūd raudulīgais skatiens”

his round face without features, without life; from (his) brown eyes the tearful, complaining look never disappeared

“sāka pienākt viņa vēstules, pilnas baiļu par savu nākotni: raudulīgas; izmisīgas”

his letters began to arrive, full of pain about his future; tearful; desperate

“raudulīgi dzejas panti”

lachrymose poetry verses

“mūsu laikmetu gan dēvē par pesimisma laikmetu, bet mūsu pesimisms nav vairs salkans, raudulīgs un neizskan vairs elēģiskās sērās par pagātni”

our era is called an era of pessimism, but our pessimism is no longer mushy, lachrymose and no longer reverberates in elegiac mourning about the past

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