crying

The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.

Adjective

  1. That cries.
    • The crying child on the street was evidently lost.

    Synonyms: in tears sobbing weeping

  2. That demands action or attention; desperate.
    • There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
  3. That deserves rebuke or censure; deplorable.
    • It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!

Origin

Etymology tree English cry English -ing English crying From cry + -ing.

Synonyms

crying in tears sobbing sobful tearful weeping

Antonyms

cheering laughing smiling uncrying untearful unweeping

Hypernyms

sad

Hyponyms

begrutten blubbery gasping moaning plaintful red-rimmed

Derived

asymmetric crying facies cryingly uncrying

Noun

  1. The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
    • Their constant cryings kept us awake!
    • […] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […] - 1848, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal:

Forms

cryings

Derived

crying room

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of cry