Antonyms 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"

   Antonyms:
   beseeching, invisible, imploring, inconspicuous, pleading

   Synonyms:
   weeping, tears

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"

   Antonyms:
   invisible, beseeching, inconspicuous, pleading, imploring

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

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cryingadjective

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

2. cryingnoun

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

How to use crying in a sentence?

1. Colleen Kraft:

   She was just inconsolable. ... We all knew why she was crying, she was crying because she wanted her mother, and there was nothing we could do.

2. Oscar Lopez:

   I told my dad, ‘You were crying because he was in jail, now you want him back in jail. What was the point in taking him out and spending all this money for no reason?’.

3. Vicki Sentas:

   I could not believe that this was happening to me. I could not stop crying. I was completely humiliated.

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. Barbara Elaine Smith:

   It feels like crying, things like that make me very sad.

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