0 a book, film, play, etc. that has a sad story intended to make people cry or be sad: --
1 infml a book, movie, or other story that makes people cry or feel sad --
Matsuyama commented the new scenario's final might be tearjerker for some players.
It's not merely a tearjerker.
The story is strictly an old-style proposed tearjerker.
It adds that the song would translate beautifully to the stage and become a tearjerker.
These films launched a melodramatic sub-genre known as lacrima movie (i.e. tearjerker movie), usually characterized by plot involving unfortunate children and fatal diseases.
Compassion is not a sloppy, sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick, to be used as a tearjerker or as an expedient at the time of an election.
