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. Vicki Olds:

   I watched that for 45 minutes, and then I actually heard hear heart, and I just sat there and cried. I couldn’t stop crying. To know that this is my baby living inside Tanisha. It was the most overwhelming thing a parent could ever experience.

2. Nancy Pelosi:

   There's no question, White House is just crying out for impeachment. That's why he flipped yesterday. ... You all have a story that isn't real. I mean, you want to believe that there's all this unease in our caucus. That simply isn't the truth.

3. Mercedes Montagnes:

   This is what the Justice Department is here for, we’ve been shouting, we’ve been screaming, we’ve been crying from every rooftop … for advocates like us this is validating. It’s energizing to know that the full power of the federal government is going to come down here and hold people responsible.

4. Jaylen Adams:

   They weren't hurt at all but other people were crying, bleeding, it was just a shocking moment for everyone, they then evacuated everyone and ambulances and a helicopter came for all of the injured individuals.

5. Deroy Murdock:

   [The left] completely has turned the term racism into a punchline, they have gone beyond crying wolf. They have made the boy who cried wolf look like a stable and reliable character, and they totally made a mockery of the term and trivialized it to the point of ridicule.