Antonyms 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"

   Antonyms:
   upright, vertical, joyful, erect

   Synonyms:
   crying, tears

2. dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weepingadjective

   showing sorrow

   Antonyms:
   erect, vertical, upright, joyful

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

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"

   Antonyms:
   joyful, upright, vertical, erect

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

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1. weepingnoun

   Synonyms:
   sobbing, crying

How to use weeping in a sentence?

1. Akram Farouq:

   We haven’t slept all night because of the explosions, and now I am out in the street with my wife and children, who are weeping and trembling.

2. J. R. R. Tolkien:

   There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

3. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

4. Aberjhani:

   Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.

5. George Weiss:

   Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

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