Crying definition

Crying

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WordNet

(1) Demanding attention

"Clamant needs"

"A crying need"

"Regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken

"Insistent hunger"

"An instant need"

(2) Noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts

"A crying mass of rioters"

"Shouting fans"

"The yelling fiend"

(3) 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"

WiktionaryText

That demands action or attention

There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
That deserves rebuke or censure

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