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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds);
- Example: "I hate to hear the crying of a child"
- Example: "she was in tears"
[syn: crying, weeping, tears]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. demanding attention;
- Example: "clamant needs"
- Example: "a crying need"
- Example: "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken
- Example: "insistent hunger"
- Example: "an instant need"
[syn: clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant]

2. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible;
- Example: "a crying shame"
- Example: "an egregious lie"
- Example: "flagrant violation of human rights"
- Example: "a glaring error"
- Example: "gross ineptitude"
- Example: "gross injustice"
- Example: "rank treachery"
[syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cry \Cry\ (kr[imac]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cried (kr[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Crying.] [F. crier, cf. L. quiritare to raise a plaintive cry, scream, shriek, perh. fr. queri to complain; cf. Skr. cvas to pant, hiss, sigh. Cf. Quarrel a brawl, Querulous.] 1. To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore. [1913 Webster] And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice. -- Matt. xxvii. 46. [1913 Webster] Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee. -- Ps. xxviii. 2. [1913 Webster] The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. --Is. xl. 3. [1913 Webster] Some cried after him to return. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster] 2. To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child. [1913 Webster] Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart. --Is. lxv. 14. [1913 Webster] I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. [1913 Webster] The young ravens which cry. --Ps. cxlvii. 9. [1913 Webster] In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry. --Shak. [1913 Webster] To cry on or To cry upon, to call upon the name of; to beseech. "No longer on Saint Denis will we cry." --Shak. To cry out. (a) To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor. (b) To complain loudly; to lament. To cry out against, to complain loudly of; to censure; to blame. To cry out on or To cry out upon, to denounce; to censure. "Cries out upon abuses." --Shak. To cry to, to call on in prayer; to implore. To cry you mercy, to beg your pardon. "I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?" --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Crying \Cry"ing\, a. Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil. [1913 Webster] Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

crying adj 1: demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn: clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant] 2: 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" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank] n 1: 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" [syn: crying, weeping, tears]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

93 Moby Thesaurus words for "crying": acute, atrocious, bawling, blatant, blubbering, boanergean, brawling, burning, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, compelling, critical, crucial, cry, demanding, desperate, dire, dissolved in tears, draining, exacting, exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, fit of crying, flood of tears, good cry, grasping, greet, heinous, high-pressure, high-priority, howling, imperative, imperious, importunate, in tears, insistent, instant, lachryma, lachrymal, lachrymose, lachrymosity, lacrimatory, loud, loudmouthed, lowing, melting mood, monstrous, mugient, necessary, needed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, overflowing eyes, persistent, pertinacious, pivotal, pressing, puling, ready to cry, scandalous, screaming, shocking, shouting, sniveling, sobbing, taxing, tear, tear bottle, teardrop, tearful, tearful eyes, tearfulness, tears, teary, ululant, urgent, vociferant, vociferating, vociferous, wailing, weepiness, weeping, weepy, whimpering, whining, with eyes suffused, yammering, yapping, yelling, yelping