crying
crying is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil. Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity. I. Taylor.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- able
- absorbing
- accident
- adversity
- and
- ask
- awry
- bad
- badness
- bale
- bane
- blow
- box
- bruise
- buffet
- calamity
- call
- cannot
- case
- casualty
- catastrophe
- cause
- charge
- claim
- command
- cost
- create
- damage
- death
- deficiency
- demand
- demon
- desiderate
- desideratum
- desire
- destitute
- destruction
- deterioration
- devil
- disadvantage
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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