crying (
http://definr.com/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 the crying
of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn:
weeping,
tears]