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| Main Entry: | crying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weeping |
| Synonyms: | mourning, tearful, sobbing, sorrowing |
| Main Entry: | crying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding attention |
| Synonyms: | compelling, critical, crucial, pressing, severe, urgent |
| Main Entry: | cry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weep and make sad sounds |
| Synonyms: | bawl, bemoan, bewail, blubber, caterwaul, choke up, complain, crack up*, deplore, fret, grieve, groan, howl, keen, lament, moan, mourn, regret, sigh, sniff, snivel, sob, sorrow, squall, wail, weep, whimper, whine, yammer, yowl, blub, boohoo*, break down, burst into tears, dissolve in tears, let go, let it all out, mewl, put on the weeps, ring the blues, shed bitter tears, shed tears, turn on waterworks |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call out, yell |
| Synonyms: | bark, bawl, bay, bellow, bleat, cackle, call, chatter, cheer, clack, clamor, cluck, coo, croak, crow, ejaculate, exclaim, gabble, growl, grunt, hail, hiss, holler, hoot, howl, low, pipe, quack, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, snarl, squawk, trill, tweet, twitter, vociferate, whistle, whoop, yawp*, yelp, caw, holler out, meow, moo, nicker, sing out, whinny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | advertise |
| Synonyms: | announce, bark*, broadcast, build up, hawk, hype*, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, puff*, trumpet*, press-agent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flagrant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flaunting, blatant; without shame |
| Synonyms: | arrant, atrocious, awful, bold, brazen, capital, conspicuous, crying, disgraceful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, flaming, flashy*, glaring, gross*, heinous, immodest, infamous, noticeable, notorious, obvious, open, ostentatious, out-and-out*, outrageous, rank, scandalous, shameful, shameless, shocking, striking, wicked, bare-faced, flagitous, grody, hanging out, stick out like sore thumb, undisguised |
| Notes: | flagrant implies shocking and reprehensible, while blatant is obvious, contrived, and usually obnoxious; flagrant is a stronger term than blatant |
| Antonyms: | concealed, disguised, hidden, mild, moral, restrained, secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, monstrous |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, awful, bad, beastly, crying, cursed, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, frightful, grave, gross*, hateful, hideous, infamous, iniquitous, nefarious, odious, offensive, outrageous, raunchy, revolting, scandalous, shocking, stinking*, unspeakable, vicious, villainous, godawful, horrendous |
| Antonyms: | glorious, good, lovely, magnificent, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | importunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding, insistent |
| Synonyms: | burning, clamant, clamorous, crying, disturbing, dogged, earnest, exigent, imperative, instant, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, pressing, solicitous, troublesome, urgent, harassing, overly solicitous |
| Antonyms: | unimportant, relaxed, undemanding |
| Main Entry: | insatiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious, wanting |
| Synonyms: | clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent, gluttonous, greedy, importunate, insistent, intemperate, pressing, rapacious, ravenous, unsatisfied, urgent, yearning, insatiate, quenchless, unappeasable, unquenchable, unsatisfiable |
| Antonyms: | fulfilled, full, pleased, satisfied, satiable |
| Main Entry: | insistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding |
| Synonyms: | assertive, burning, clamant, clamorous, continuous, crying, dire, dogged, emphatic, exigent, forceful, imperative, imperious, importunate, incessant, obstinate, peremptory, persevering, persistent, pressing, resolute, unrelenting, urgent, perseverant, reiterative, resounding |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, indifferent, lenient, tolerant |
| Main Entry: | instant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immediate, urgent |
| Synonyms: | burning*, clamant, contemporary, crying*, current, dire, direct, exigent, extant, fast, imperative, importunate, insistent, instantaneous, present, pressing, prompt, quick, existent, on-the-spot, present-day, split-second |
| Antonyms: | delayed, eventual, late, later |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mourning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sadness, time of sadness |
| Synonyms: | bereavement, blackness, crying, darkness, grief, lamenting, languishing, weeping, woe, aching, grieving, keening, lamentation, moaning, pining, repining, sorrowing, wailing |
| Antonyms: | cheer, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | pressing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important; urgent |
| Synonyms: | acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, compelling, critical, crucial, crying, demanding, dire, distressing, exacting, exigent, immediate, imperative, importunate, insistent, instant, life-and-death*, obliging, requiring, serious, vital, claiming, constraining, forcing, heat-on, high-priority, hurry-up |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, trivial, unimportant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | querulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grouchy, hard to please |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, captious, carping, censorious, complaining, critical, cross, crying, discontented, dissatisfied, edgy, fault-finding, fretful, grumbling, irritable, lamenting, petulant, plaintive, snappy, sour, testy, uptight, waspish, bearish, bemoaning, deploring, grousing, grumbly, huffy irascible*, out of sorts peevish*, scrappy, thin-skinned touchy*, wailing, waspy, whimpering, whining, whiny |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, easy-going |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scandalous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disreputable |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, backbiting, crying, defamatory, desperate, disgraceful, heinous, ignominious, infamous, libelous, monstrous, odious, opprobrious, outrageous, scurrilous, shameful, shocking, slanderous, unseemly, untrue, calumnious, detracting, detractive, gossiping, maligning, red hot, traducing, vilifying |
| Antonyms: | proper, reputable, respected |
| Main Entry: | shocking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outrageous; very surprising |
| Synonyms: | abominable, appalling, atrocious, awful, burning, crying, desperate, detestable, direful, disgraceful, disgusting, disquieting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, formidable, foul, frightful, ghastly, glaring, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, loathsome, monstrous, nauseating, odious, offensive, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, shameful, sickening, terrible, ugly, unspeakable, horrific, horrifying, stupefying |
| Antonyms: | calming, comforting, soothing |
| Main Entry: | urgent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | needing immediate attention |
| Synonyms: | burning*, capital, chief, clamant, clamorous, compelling, critical, crucial, crying*, demanding, driving, essential, exigent, foremost, heavy*, immediate, imperative, important, importunate, indispensable, insistent, instant, leading, momentous, necessary, paramount, persuasive, pressing, primary, principal, required, salient, serious, touchy*, vital, wanted, weighty*, called-for, demanded, hurry-up, impelling, life and death, top-priority, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | moderate, unimportant, unnecessary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blatant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obvious; brazen |
| Synonyms: | arrant, bald, barefaced, brassy, clear, conspicuous, crying, flagrant, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glaring, impudent, loud, meretricious, naked, obtrusive, ostentatious, outright, overt, plain, prominent, pronounced, shameless, sheer, showy, snazzy, unmitigated, glitzy, overbold, protrusive, screaming, unabashed, unblushing |
| Antonyms: | inconspicuous, quiet, subtle, unpronounced |
| Main Entry: | dire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | urgent; crucial |
| Synonyms: | acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, critical, crying, desperate, drastic, exigent, extreme, immoderate, imperative, importunate, instant, pressing, climacteric |
| Antonyms: | trivial, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | exigent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | urgent, pressing |
| Synonyms: | acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, critical, crucial, crying, imperative, importunate, insistent, instant, menacing, necessary, threatening, constraining, needful |
| Antonyms: | ordinary, usual, unpressured |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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