crying | ||
1. | [ adjective ] noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts | |
Synonyms: | yelling howling shouting | |
Examples: | "a crying mass of rioters" "a howling wind" "shouting fans" "the yelling fiend" |
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Related terms: | noisy | |
2. | [ adjective ] conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | |
Synonyms: | glaring flagrant gross rank egregious | |
Examples: | "a crying shame" "an egregious lie" "flagrant violation of human rights" "a glaring error" "gross ineptitude" "gross injustice" "rank treachery" |
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Related terms: | conspicuous | |
3. | [ adjective ] demanding attention | |
Synonyms: | insistent exigent instant clamant | |
Examples: | "clamant needs" "a crying need" "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken "insistent hunger" "an instant need" |
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Related terms: | imperative | |
4. | [ noun ] (biology) the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds) | |
Synonyms: | tears weeping | |
Examples: | "I hate to hear the crying of a child" "she was in tears" |
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Related terms: | bodily_process sob snivel wailing sobbing cry | |
Similar spelling: |
cringe crowing cringle cringing Crangon cronyism crimson |