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. Michael Sussman:

   We went out in the streets and children were screaming and crying, devastation everywhere.

2. Precious Enyioko:

   It was so difficult to drop my children, it was so dark in the room and the kids were coughing and crying. When I saw the people gathering with the blanket, I could see it was military members, I thanked my God.

3. Brad McLean:

   They're coming together, they're crying together, they're praying together and ... there's anxiousness as to who was on the bus and what their condition is.

4. Meryem Dolgun:

   They draw tanks, war planes, dead people, wounded children, crying mothers. Drawings are the evidence of their trauma, the reflection of their inner worlds.

5. State Sen. Roland Gutierrez:

   We see people coming out just terrorized. They're crying one by one. They're being told that their child has passed on.