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Synonyms for weeping
ˈwi pɪŋweep·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:
    crying, tears

    Antonyms:
    upright, vertical, joyful, erect

  2. dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weepingadjective

    showing sorrow

    Synonyms:
    pendulous, drooping, dolorous, lachrymose, cernuous, dolourous, nodding, tearful

    Antonyms:
    erect, vertical, upright, joyful

  3. cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weepingadjective

    having branches or flower heads that bend downward

    "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"

    Synonyms:
    sagging, lachrymose, dolourous, drooping, dolorous, nodding, cernuous, pendulous, flagging, tearful, droopy

    Antonyms:
    joyful, upright, vertical, erect

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  1. weepingnoun

    Synonyms:
    sobbing, crying

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  1. List of paraphrases for "weeping":

    crying, mourning, cry

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#5529cry
#6542tears
#10209crying
#19478mourning
#23941weeping
#39571nodding
#41646flagging
#48791sagging
#65244tearful
#66239drooping
#83753droopy
#118791pendulous
#139273dolorous

How to use weeping in a sentence?

  1. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

    All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

  2. Proverb:

    Weeping bride, laughing wife; laughing bride, weeping wife.

  3. Anne Rice:

    The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

  4. Barbara Bush:

    Night after night, George held me weeping in his arms while I tried to explain my feelings, i almost wonder why he didn’t leave me.

  5. Johann von Goethe:

    Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.


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