crying
adj 1: noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts; "a crying
mass of rioters"; "a howling wind"; "shouting fans";
"the yelling fiend" [syn: {howling}, {yelling}, {shouting}]
2: demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need";
"regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"-
H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn: {clamant},
{exigent}, {insistent}, {instant}]
3: 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 : the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs
or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear a child
crying"; "she was in tears" [syn: {weeping}, {tears}]