adjective, noun
adjective [onlybeforenoun]
IDIOMS
be a crying shame (spoken) used to emphasize that you think sth is extremely bad or shocking:
It's a crying shame to waste all that food.
a crying need (for sth) a great and urgent need for sth:
There is a crying need for more funds.
noun [U] the sound or act of crying:
the crying of terrified children
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for crying is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does crying appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — crying appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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