crying
About 11.84 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective That cries.
The crying child on the street was evidently lost.
- adjective That demands action or attention; desperate.
There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
- adjective That deserves rebuke or censure; deplorable.
It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!
- noun The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
Their constant cryings kept us awake!
- verb present participle and gerund of cry
Similar words
weeping howling yelling shouting noisy glaring gross egregious flagrant clamant
Often followed by
out and for in to of with need over
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