CRYING
Dictionary entry overview: What does crying mean?
• CRYING (noun)
The noun CRYING has 1 sense:
1. the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)
Familiarity information: CRYING used as a noun is very rare.
• CRYING (adjective)
The adjective CRYING has 3 senses:
1. noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts
2. demanding attention
3. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Familiarity information: CRYING used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• CRYING (noun)
Meaning:
The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
crying; tears; weeping
Context examples:
I hate to hear the crying of a child / she was in tears
Hypernyms ("crying" is a kind of...):
activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crying"):
snivel; sniveling (whining in a tearful manner)
sob; sobbing (convulsive gasp made while weeping)
bawling; wailing (loud cries made while weeping)
• CRYING (adjective)
Meaning:
Noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts
Synonyms:
crying; shouting; yelling
Context examples:
a crying mass of rioters / shouting fans / the yelling fiend
Similar:
noisy (full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds)
Meaning:
Demanding attention
Synonyms:
exigent; insistent; crying; clamant; instant
Context examples:
clamant needs / a crying need / regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous / insistent hunger / an instant need
Similar:
imperative (requiring attention or action)
Meaning:
Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Synonyms:
egregious; flagrant; glaring; rank; crying; gross
Context examples:
a crying shame / an egregious lie / flagrant violation of human rights / a glaring error / gross ineptitude / gross injustice / rank treachery
Similar:
conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)
