"crying" meaning in English

See crying in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /kɹaɪ̯.ɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-crying.ogg
Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ Etymology: From cry + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|cry|ing}} cry + -ing Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} crying (not comparable)
  1. That cries. Tags: not-comparable Translations (that cries): بَاكٍ (bākin) (Arabic), пла́чущий (pláčuščij) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-crying-en-adj-nppUfya5 Disambiguation of 'that cries': 97 2 2
  2. That demands action or attention. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-crying-en-adj-Wv7~UOms
  3. That deserves rebuke or censure. Tags: not-comparable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cryingly, uncrying

Noun

IPA: /kɹaɪ̯.ɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-crying.ogg Forms: cryings [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ Etymology: From cry + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|cry|ing}} cry + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} crying (countable and uncountable, plural cryings)
  1. The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (action of the verb cry): κλαυθμός (klauthmós) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), بُكَاء (bukāʔ) [masculine] (Arabic), плач (plač) [masculine] (Belarusian), плач (plač) [masculine] (Bulgarian), plor [masculine] (Catalan), плачь (plačĭ) [Cyrillic, masculine] (Church Slavic), pláč [masculine] (Czech), gråd [common-gender] (Danish), huilen [neuter] (Dutch), itkeminen (Finnish), pleur [masculine] (French), Weinen [neuter] (German), 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐍃 (grēts) [masculine] (Gothic), sírás (Hungarian), tangisan (Indonesian), pianto [masculine] (Italian), txore (Kabuverdianu), txoru (Kabuverdianu), flētus [masculine] (Latin), плач (plač) [masculine] (Macedonian), tangisan (Malay), കരച്ചിൽ (karaccil) (Malayalam), gråt [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), gråt [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), plor [masculine] (Occitan), آغلامه (ağlama) (Ottoman Turkish), płacz [masculine] (Polish), choro [masculine] (Portuguese), плач (plač) [masculine] (Russian), пла̏ч [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), plȁč [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), plač [masculine] (Slovak), jok [masculine] (Slovene), llanto [masculine] (Spanish), gråt [common-gender] (Swedish), ağlama (Turkish), плач (plač) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-crying-en-noun-frMC5wzZ

Verb

IPA: /kɹaɪ̯.ɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-crying.ogg
Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ Etymology: From cry + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|cry|ing}} cry + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} crying
  1. present participle and gerund of cry Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: cry
    Sense id: en-crying-en-verb-yGUNR3U8

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (94ba7e1 and 5dea2a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.