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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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. Spun Gold:

   Harry was born into a marriage that was falling apart, and it’s a marriage that played out on the world stage… The dirty laundry is right out there… Then at age 12, he has to walk behind his mother’s coffin in front of 2 billion people watching from around the world. He has to shake the hands of people who are weeping, who haven’t even met his mother. And yet he has to hold it together. Prince Harry (center) with his brother Prince William and father Prince Charles at Princess Diana's funeral. (Reuters) That plays forward to today in terms of why Harry wants to be so protective of Meghan. When the British press were frankly being racist about her arrival to the U.K. and into the royal family, Harry issues a statement essentially saying 'back off.' And they did back off. He couldn’t protect his mother as a 12-year-old boy, but he is determined to protect Meghan. And it comes as no surprise that he and his brother have a big distrust of the media.

3. Thomas Paine:

   Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.

4. 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.

5. Kahlil Gibran:

   When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.