Synonyms for crying
ˈkraɪ ɪŋcry·ing

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1. crying, weeping, tearsadjective

   the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

   "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears"

   Synonyms:
   weeping, tears

   Antonyms:
   beseeching, invisible, imploring, inconspicuous, pleading

2. clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instantadjective

   demanding attention

   "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"

   Synonyms:
   instant, clamant, insistent, instant(a), egregious, exigent, glaring, gross, flagrant, strident, repetitive, vociferous, crying(a), blatant, clamorous, instantaneous, exacting, rank, inst

   Antonyms:
   invisible, beseeching, inconspicuous, pleading, imploring

3. crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rankadjective

   conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

   "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"

   Antonyms:
   imploring, inconspicuous, pleading, beseeching, invisible

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1. cryingnoun

   Synonyms:
   weeping, lamentation

2. cryingadjective

   Synonyms:
   weeping, lamenting

3. cryingadjective

   Synonyms:
   notorious, great, enormous, heinous, flagrant, nefarious

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1. cryingadjective

   Synonyms:
   weeping, sobbing, clamant, flagrant, egregious, heinous, nefarious

2. cryingnoun

   Synonyms:
   weeping, sobbing, wailing, wail, clamation, bawling, puling, squalling

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1. List of paraphrases for "crying":

   cry, weeping, weep, blubbering, mourn, tears, sobbing, 'recrying, mourning, cries, bawling, whining

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1. Dusty Kornbacher:

   All the parking lots were full with parents and kids hugging each other and crying and nobody really knowing what was going on.

2. Tiffany France:

   He's stressed, and I am, too. I told him I'm probably going to start crying.

3. Danielle Crull:

   The story that happens over and over is a little one is crying and she comes out and I put glasses on her, and they immediately stop crying and laugh and put their own glasses on, it happens countless times, and it's just as sweet every single time.

4. Esperanza Huayama:

   Women were crying and shouting because of the pain. We were cut quickly. They treated us like animals, we were given no free medicine, nothing, after the surgery. When the doctors finished, they just shut the door and returned to Lima.

5. Renee Bergstrom:

   Later the day it happened, ... she carried me around until I quit crying, even when I was very little, she told me it was a mistake, but I was to never talk about it.