crying

English

Etymology

From cry +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹaɪ̯.ɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ

Adjective

crying (not comparable)

1. That cries.

   The crying child on the street was evidently lost.

2. That demands action or attention.

   There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.

3. That deserves rebuke or censure.

   It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!

Derived terms

• cryingly
• uncrying

 

Translations

that cries

• Arabic: بَاكٍ (ar) (bākin)
• Russian: пла́чущий (ru) (pláčuščij)

that demands action or attention

that deserves rebuke or censure

Noun

crying (countable and uncountable, plural cryings)

1. The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.

   Their constant cryings kept us awake!

   • 1848, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal:

     […] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]

Translations

action of the verb cry

• Arabic: بُكَاء (ar) m (bukāʔ)
• Belarusian: плач m (plač)
• Bulgarian: плач (bg) m (plač)
• Catalan: plor (ca) m
• Czech: pláč (cs) m
• Danish: gråd (da) c
• Dutch: huilen (nl) n
• Finnish: itkeminen (fi)
• French: pleur (fr) m
• German: Weinen (de) n
• Gothic: 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐍃 m (grēts)
• Greek:

  Ancient: κλαυθμός m (klauthmós)

• Hungarian: sírás (hu)
• Indonesian: tangisan (id)
• Italian: pianto (it) m
• Kabuverdianu: txore, txoru
• Latin: flētus m
• Macedonian: плач m (plač)
• Malay: tangisan (ms)
• Malayalam: കരച്ചിൽ (ml) (karaccil)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gråt (no) m

  Nynorsk: gråt m

• Occitan: plor (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: плачь m (plačĭ)

• Ottoman Turkish: آغلامه (ağlama)
• Polish: płacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: choro (pt) m
• Russian: плач (ru) m (plač)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пла̏ч m

  Roman: plȁč (sh) m

• Slovak: plač m
• Slovene: jok (sl) m
• Spanish: llanto (es) m
• Swedish: gråt (sv) c
• Turkish: ağlama (tr)
• Ukrainian: плач m (plač)

Verb

crying

1. present participle and gerund of cry

Anagrams

• cringy