crying
Meaning of crying
verb
- To shed tears; to weep.
That sad movie always makes me cry.
- To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
- To shout, scream, yell.
- To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
- To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
Tonight I'll cry myself to sleep.
- To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, etc.
to cry goods
- Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
- The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
Their constant cryings kept us awake!
- That cries.
The crying child on the street was evidently lost.
- That demands action or attention.
There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
- That deserves rebuke or censure.
It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!
Information about crying
- The plural form of crying is: cryings.
- Languages in which crying is used:
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Hyphenation of crying
cry-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- crying is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
crying synonyms
Meaning yelling:
Meaning clamant:
clamant, exigent, insistent, instant
Meaning egregious:
egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank
Meaning weeping:
Meaning :
bawl, blubber, sob, wail, weep, whimper
crying antonyms
Meaning :
Words that rhyme with crying
betra'ying, Maying, abraying, affraying, alaying, allaying, apaying, appaying, arraying, assaying, baying, belaying, bendaying, beraying, betraying, bewraying, bioassaying, braying, bricklaying, cardplaying, causewaying, claying, daying, decaying, deejaying, defraying, delaying, denaying, deraying, disarraying, dismaying, displaying, doomsaying, downplaying, draying, effraying, embaying, endplaying, essaying, estraying, faying, flaying, foraying, forelaying, foresaying, forraying, forsaying, fraying, gainsaying, gatewaying
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