Synonyms for crying
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
Other
Noun
2. Bawling
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
That cries.
The crying child on the street was evidently lost.
- adj. 2
That demands action or attention; desperate.
There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
- adj. 3
That deserves rebuke or censure; deplorable.
It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!
- n. 1
The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
Their constant cryings kept us awake!
Related words
- Phrases
- crying bird crying room
- Is a kind of
- sad
Forms
- Plural
- cryings → weepings, bawlings, wailings, lamentations…
Example sentences
- insistent Sami's insistent calls drained Layla's phone battery.
- gross If it doesn't gross you out, you can use my spoon.
- glaring Igor was glaring at Anna and muttering to himself.
- sobbing The girl was sobbing in the corner of the schoolroom.
- dead Happy is she who marries the son of a dead mother.
By length
- 4 letters
- dead1, rank1, dire1
- 5 letters
- gross1, tears1
- 6 letters
- urgent2, puling, sobful
- 7 letters
- instant2, sobbing2, weeping2, glaring2, heinous2, wailing2, tearful2, bawling, exigent3, clamant
- 8 letters
- flagrant2
- 9 letters
- egregious3, insistent3
- 10 letters
- imperative4
- 11 letters
- lamentation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (urgent2 = 2 syllables).