crying
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
/ˈkɹaɪ̯.ɪŋ/
Definition of crying
5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
-
(not-comparable)That cries.
“The crying child on the street was evidently lost.”
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adj
-
(not-comparable)That cries.
“The crying child on the street was evidently lost.”
-
(not-comparable)That demands action or attention; desperate.
“There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.”
-
(not-comparable)That deserves rebuke or censure; deplorable.
“It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!”
noun
-
(countable, uncountable)The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
“Their constant cryings kept us awake!”
“[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]”
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of cry
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From cry + -ing.
Words you can make from crying
14 playable · top: CRINGY (12 pts)
Best play cringy 12 points4-letter words
4 words3-letter words
7 words2-letter words
2 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 front
A single letter you can add to crying to make another valid word.
Front
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