crying

  • (s) demanding attention
    • clamant needs
    • a crying need
    • "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken
    • insistent hunger
    • an instant need
    exigent, clamant, insistent, instant,
  • (s) 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
    egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank, gross,

Nouns

  • (n) 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
    tears, weeping,

Synonyms

exigent clamant insistent instant tears weeping egregious flagrant glaring rank gross

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